From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 22:49:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7A737B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A6843E4A for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:49:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv_fm@mailsent.net) Received: from sdn-ap-030dcwashp0273.dialsprint.net ([65.177.113.19] helo=moo.holy.cow) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 184xLF-0004af-00; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:49:06 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1F220C0FE; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 01:51:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 01:51:49 -0400 From: parv To: "Kirk R. Wythers" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: housecleaning and portupgrade question Message-ID: <20021025055149.GA5018@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: "Kirk R. Wythers" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1035474504.15382.20.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1035474504.15382.20.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <1035474504.15382.20.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>, wrote Kirk R. Wythers thusly... > > aalib-1.4.r5 < needs updating (port has 1.4.r5_1) > aalib-1.4.r5_1 = up-to-date with port ... > > 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. when you deinstall an old port, it's quite possible that files from new port will also be deleeted. in that case, you will need to re-install that new port. just be careful of "-f" (force) option of pkg_delete or pkg_deinstall. pay attention to any message which says along the lines of "checksum mismatch, deleted anyway". in that case, see above. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message