Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:49:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: VEGA <vega@d132-h017.rh.rit.edu>, FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: removing crufty libraries Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810121746190.2084-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810121727260.7624-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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