Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:05:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> To: Tobias Roth <roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Martin Walter <walter@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> Subject: Re: How to upgrade Ports like x11/gnome? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007191642100.91785-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10007191452160.5803-100000@constable>
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Tobias Roth wrote: > > I'd like to ask about the policy when upgrading a port. > > pkg_version -c > > this tells you which installed ports are outdated (in reference to you > /usr/ports directory) and what you have to type to update them. You should > read the manpages before asking such questions. But this even deletes all the shared libs of the outdated version - right? (say in case of libraries etc.) For example, if a user of our cluster runs some program (installed by that user) which depends on a special version of the shared libs, I cannot go ahead and delete it... So my question was on how to upgrade to a new version of a port, of course without loosing any functionality. Any hints? greets -Jan > > greets, hw > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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