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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:13:17 -0500
To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports 
Cc: John Kozubik <john@www.kozubik.com>,
	Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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At 12:54 PM 10.7.2002 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:49:23 -0500
>> From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>> 
>> At 12:21 PM 10.7.2002 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
>> >
>> >Rus,
>> >
>> >Please take a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, as it is the
>> >appropriate tool for these sort of upgrades.
>> >
>> >Circumstantial evidence over the years has led me to believe that most
>> >ports will actually successfully and without issue overwrite their
>> >previous iterations that were also installed via the ports tree (lynx,
>> >wget, things like that).
>> >
>> >-----
>> >John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com
>> >
>> >
>
>> If you don't mind first deinstalling the old port, then a simple way is to:
>> # pkg_delete <foo_1>
>> ...then cd /usr/ports/foo_2:
>> #make install clean
>> 
>> You are now up to date.....
>
>
>This ignores dependencies. If I upgrade some port but don't get the
>dependencies as well, things can break. portupgrade was designed to
>handle these.
>
>R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
>Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)

hmmmmm.... every port I've installed has fetched the dependencies which are
also listed with the port info.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

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

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