From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 13: 9:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.eagle.ca (mail2.eagle.ca [209.167.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656E037B407 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 13:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from afi (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by mail2.eagle.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g47K1Xk55174 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 16:01:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@brenius.com) Message-ID: <002901c1f603$0fb7c0c0$7b01a8c0@afi> From: To: References: <001701c1f5fa$82f6b540$7b01a8c0@afi> <20020507192028.GC83944@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: pkg_version -v, Need More Precise Info Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:09:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 3:20 PM Subject: Re: pkg_version -v, Need More Precise Info > In the last episode (May 07), lists@brenius.com said: > > FreeBSD 4.3R: > > > > Trying to figure out what version of a port/package is actually being > > used/installed. > > > > The pkg_version -v output comes up with three versions of qpopper, > > and I am just trying to figure out which one is actually being used. > You probably want pkg_info; pkg_version is used to print packages that > might need updating. Gotcha, will keep that in mind. > If you see three packages, it means that someone has probably > overlay-installed updates without pkg_delete'ing the previous version. That's what I figured. It appears as though the previous server janitor failed to clean out the pkg database via pkg_delete. >Take a look at the 'portupgrade' port; it automates upgrades and handles > port dependencies very cleanly. Will do that in future, but in the meantime, I need to track down which package is actually being utiltized/running/etc. Thanks, D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message