Date: 01 Apr 2000 13:59:55 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package/port INDEX question Message-ID: <rd6pus9k5p0.fsf@world.std.com> In-Reply-To: "David J. Kanter"'s message of Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:00:08 -0600 References: <20000401120008.A23617@localhost.localdomain>
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"David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu> writes: > Is the package index referred to when using pkg_version an amalgam of > installed packages, installed ports, and not-installed ports? /usr/ports/INDEX is the index of available ports. It does not look at what is installed: just what is in the ports tree (or, what *was* in the ports tree when INDEX was built). pkg_version compares this to the installed ports and packages (which are equivalent once installed, by the way), and determines which ones it has new versions of. > I ask this because of the "multiple versions" that shows up when I run > pkg_version after upgrading from 3.4-R to 3.4-S. A bunch now show up, and > I'm assuming it's because multiple versions of a port exist, rather than my > installation of multiple versions of a package or port. You are completely correct. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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