Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:02:26 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: Otter <otterr@telocity.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleting XF863 w/o package? Message-ID: <20001025180226.A76950@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10010251723120.6796-100000@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>; from timcm@umich.edu on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:30:27PM -0400 References: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPGENGCGAA.otterr@telocity.com> <Pine.SOL.4.10.10010251723120.6796-100000@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:30:27PM -0400, Tim McMillen wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Otter wrote: > > You could always wipe > > out your /dev directory for a little excitement! > > -Otter I'm dumb, not stupid. :) > Yeah, if one port want to write over another it pretty much just does. > The new port works well and the old one, I personally don't know here what > happens to it and would be interested to know. If you have multiple packages that want to put the a binary of the same name in the same place, the last one in will overwrite it. You'll have one complete package, and part of another package. Quite a recipe for pain. You did the right thing; pkg_delete them all, and pkg_add what you want. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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