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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:03:26 -0500
To: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>,
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From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: housecleaning and portupgrade question
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At 10:48 AM 10.24.2002 -0500, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
>I'm doing a little house cleaning and I's appreciate some advice. I'm
>looking at a machine that (in the past) has been upgraded with several
>methods. Some of which have left old versions of application x on the
>machine. For example:
>
>[kwythers@lorax]~$ pkg_version -v
>a2dev-1.2                           =   up-to-date with port
>a2ps-letter-4.13_1                  =   up-to-date with port
>aalib-1.4.r5                        <   needs updating (port has
>1.4.r5_1)
>aalib-1.4.r5_1                      =   up-to-date with port
>acroread-5.06_1                     =   up-to-date with port
>acroread4-4.05         		    =   up-to-date with port
>autoconf-2.53                       <   needs updating (port has 2.53_1)
>autoconf213-2.13.000227_1           <   needs updating (port has
>2.13.000227_4)
>automake-1.5,1                      =   up-to-date with port
>automake14-1.4.5                    <   needs updating (port has
>1.4.5_5)
>
>It looks to me like there is no reason for both aalib-1.4.r5 and
>aalib-1.4.r5_1. Seems that portupgrade does not cause this problem and
>is the prefered upgrade method
>
>There are numerous examples of this issue. My question is: what is the
>recommended way to delete an old version application x. This assumes of
>course that you are sure that it is not depended upon by some other app.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kirk
>

To remove, use the portupgrade "pkg_deinstall". Run man pkg_deinstall for
the options that you want.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

SageOne Net
http://www.sage-one.net
jackstone@sage-one.net

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