From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 17:53:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22298 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from d132-h017.rh.rit.edu (d132-h017.rh.rit.edu [129.21.132.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22291 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vega@d132-h017.rh.rit.edu) Received: from localhost (vega@localhost) by d132-h017.rh.rit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22992; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:47:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from vega@d132-h017.rh.rit.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:47:59 -0400 (EDT) From: VEGA To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: Brett Taylor , FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: removing crufty libraries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Brett Taylor wrote: > > >Ooh - installing over is not usually a good idea. If you used the port to > >install it you can do the following (as root): > > > > cd /var/db/pkg > > pkg_delete old_port_I_don't_want > > > >If you have CVSupped the latest ports you can then go to the ports tree to > >build the latest greatest version. > > > >Note that things like imlib that may have been installed w/ say > >Enlightenment may need a "pkg_delete -f old_port" as they are listed as > >dependencies. > > Everything that Brett has said is good. I would just add that sometimes > old crufty software depend on old crufty libraries. You may want to make a > closer examination of what you need. > > I did have one case, one time, where I needed an old library to get > something working. Eventually the port was upgraded to the new libary and > all was good. > > The way FreeBSD does this excellent. It does not _assume_ that you want to > get rid of old crufty stuff. Certain commercial OS will. > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ > | 206-633-5994 yeah that was definately what the doctor ordered; ive been getting MANY errors klately when i try to compile new ports and im sure this is the cause of it. thanks alot guys!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message