From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 7:37:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojo.virtualservice.com (mojo.virtualservice.com [207.164.49.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3516537BE95 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:37:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@virtualservice.com) Received: from virtualservice.com (procyon.wiredsolutions.com [207.164.49.241]) by mojo.virtualservice.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA29768 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:32:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3975BF0B.530F4BC2@virtualservice.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:45:31 -0400 From: Matt Gostick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to upgrade Ports like x11/gnome? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think there's a 'make reinstall' for all ports... I don't know for sure .. but I wonder if this would be the best way? Other than that.. to be on the safe side I would uninstall first. Not only to be safe but also so pkg_info displays sane info. -- Matt Gostick Jan Conrad wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'd like to ask about the policy when upgrading a port. > > Say I have gnome-1.0.53 installed and want to upgrade to the > latest version (1.2)? > > Should I just install the new one over the old one? > Whats the best way? > > many thanks > Jan > > -- > Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn > Nussallee 12 > D-53115 Bonn > GERMANY > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message