From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 11:02:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DE21065670 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net (relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net [212.159.7.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E518FC08 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:01:59 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvcFAO6xUE1UXebj/2dsb2JhbACXDo4dc7t/hVoE Received: from outmx01.plus.net ([84.93.230.227]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 08 Feb 2011 11:01:58 +0000 Received: from helix.plus.com ([84.92.153.232] helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by outmx01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1PmlKX-0007eD-Lm for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:01:57 +0000 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PmlKW-0000y2-BU for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:01:56 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:01:56 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv> <44aai7vh5b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4D511D49.4010704@inbox.lv> In-Reply-To: <4D511D49.4010704@inbox.lv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201102081101.56290.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:02:00 -0000 On Tuesday 08 February 2011, Mikael Bak wrote: > I was not aware I could just install the same software over the other > without first removing it. Shouldn't I do that? I would not want to > end up with a broken software or a broken ports database. If in doubt you could create a backup package first with "pkg_create -b pkg-name". That would give you a fair chance of rolling back to the previous version if things went pear-shaped. -- Mike Clarke