From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 13: 3:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laxmls02.socal.rr.com (laxmls02.socal.rr.com [24.30.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A2A37B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sc-24-24-200-104.socal.rr.com (stephen@sc-24-24-200-104.socal.rr.com [24.24.200.104]) by laxmls02.socal.rr.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eB2L32Z23590 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:03:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200012022103.eB2L32Z23590@laxmls02.socal.rr.com> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:05:44 -0800 (PST) From: Ixokai Subject: Upgrading Ports.. final try? :) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mahogany, 0.60 'Redmond', compiled for FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-Disposition: INLINE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've asked this question on a couple prior occassions, and I do not think I ever actually received any sort of reply, so, just a bit frustrated, i'm going to try a final time :) I'm currently running lots of old software. :) Gnome, Sawfish, Postfix, and just about everything else I have installed :) What's the best way to upgrade these things? For little programs like xmms, I'd just pkg_delete and then go into the ports tree and make clean install again... no biggie. But for big things, with lots of dependencies -- say, Gnome, for instance, it gives errors about every program currently installed, blah blah. Should I force it to delete the prior version; will the new version work with these programs, and will they be able to link into it, or should I just install the new one _over_ the old one? I'm not sure which is best. Thanks in advance for any help. --Ixokai (formerly Stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com :)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message