From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 18 9:56:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2117937B401 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:56:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C68D43FCB for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:56:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1048442194.486a12@mired.org) Received: (qmail 78023 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2003 17:56:34 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 18 Mar 2003 17:56:34 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15991.24017.741532.962785@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:56:33 -0600 To: David.Bear@asu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade ? In-Reply-To: <20030318095553.F18308@asu.edu> References: <20030318095553.F18308@asu.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.71 (Hoop, Jr.) 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 In <20030318095553.F18308@asu.edu>, David Bear typed: > I do have cvsup installed, and can run cvsup to update my ports > collection. My question is if I already have a package installed, > running cvsup, the make install again for a preexisting port will mess > up the pkg-data base right? Wrong. If you are installing a port a second time, "make install" will refuse to install the port because it's already installed. If you are installing an updated port, then the pkg-data will be in a different place because the port has a different name. The latter case may leave parts of the first port laying around unused, and deinstalling it will probably break the second port. > So, if I only want to upgrade a single > port, is the recommended way > 1) pkg_deinstall > 2) cvsup ports collection > 3) pkg_install again (or make install) > This seems rather poor as I don't want to have all the downtime > between deinstalling and installing again. Try this: 1) cvsup ports collection 2) make 3) pkg_deinstall 4) make install > If I cvsup ports and then make install, is there a fix to update the > pkg data base? It's not needed. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message