From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 15: 2:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A593F37B4CF for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:02:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA76968; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:02:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:02:26 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Tim McMillen Cc: Otter , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleting XF863 w/o package? Message-ID: <20001025180226.A76950@blackhelicopters.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from timcm@umich.edu on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:30:27PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:30:27PM -0400, Tim McMillen wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Otter wrote: > > You could always wipe > > out your /dev directory for a little excitement! > > -Otter I'm dumb, not stupid. :) > Yeah, if one port want to write over another it pretty much just does. > The new port works well and the old one, I personally don't know here what > happens to it and would be interested to know. If you have multiple packages that want to put the a binary of the same name in the same place, the last one in will overwrite it. You'll have one complete package, and part of another package. Quite a recipe for pain. You did the right thing; pkg_delete them all, and pkg_add what you want. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message