Partially OT - Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-08 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Hans Lambermont thusly... > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... > > The way you upgrade a port/package on a FreeBSD machine is that > > you pkg_delete (deinstall) the old one before pkg_add'ing > > (installing) the new one. All package management systems on > > eve

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-07 Thread Hans Lambermont
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... > The way you upgrade a port/package on a FreeBSD machine is that you > pkg_delete (deinstall) the old one before pkg_add'ing (installing) the > new one. All package management systems on every platform I've used > (Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD) behave this way. The drea

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:51:33AM -0800 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: > > So let's tell Navneet exactly what he's getting into, shall we? OK, but let's do that by telling him what he's getting into, not vague gestures at overblown half-truths. > - Ruby is not i

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 6, 2008, at 2:39 AM, navneet Upadhyay wrote: Since i am not using the ports , i have complied my product and have created package using pkg_create on Machine B(build)and added it using pkg_add on machine A . so after these steps i have my 1.0 installed on Machine A. Now i have made s

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:51:33 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sigh... why do people always recommend portupgrade to users without > telling them of the caveats? I grow tired of this. So let's tell > Navneet exactly what he's getting into, shall we? thanks for the info Jeremy, v

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Now i have made some changes in my product and created a package on Machine B using pkg_create, and it is my 1.1 version. I want to install this(1.1) version on machine A(which is having 1.0 already installed) . one way is to remove 1.0 and install 1.1 on machine A, but i cannot afford to do so.

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:09:47PM +0530, navneet Upadhyay wrote: > Since i am not using the ports , i have complied my product and have created > package using pkg_create on Machine B(build)and added it using pkg_add on > machine A . > so after these steps i have my 1.0 installed on Machine A. >

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread navneet Upadhyay
Since i am not using the ports , i have complied my product and have created package using pkg_create on Machine B(build)and added it using pkg_add on machine A . so after these steps i have my 1.0 installed on Machine A. Now i have made some changes in my product and created a package on Machine

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
while i usually did this think manually i would try portmaster next time i will need an upgrade. and - thanks to your explanation - i will avoid portupgrade. thank you. One such tool is portmaster (ports-mgmt/portmaster), maintained by Doug Barton. It's actively maintained and written in sh

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:10:19PM +0530, ??? (Shantanoo) wrote: > On Feb 6, 2008 11:41 AM, navneet Upadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have two binary packages of an application of version 1.1 and 1.2. > > *The 1.1 is already installed, how can i upgrade it to 1.2*

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread शंतनु (Shantanoo)
On Feb 6, 2008 11:41 AM, navneet Upadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have two binary packages of an application of version 1.1 and 1.2. > *The 1.1 is already installed, how can i upgrade it to 1.2* ? > > Do i have to uninstall 1.1 and then install 1.2 ? I would prefer a way by > w

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:41:13AM +0530, navneet Upadhyay wrote: > I have two binary packages of an application of version 1.1 and 1.2. > *The 1.1 is already installed, how can i upgrade it to 1.2* ? > > Do i have to uninstall 1.1 and then install 1.2 ? I would prefer a way by > which i c

Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-05 Thread navneet Upadhyay
Hi, I have two binary packages of an application of version 1.1 and 1.2. *The 1.1 is already installed, how can i upgrade it to 1.2* ? Do i have to uninstall 1.1 and then install 1.2 ? I would prefer a way by which i can upgrade an wxisting package without uninstalling. Thanks, Navneet __