Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:01:20 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages Message-ID: <200212311401.20132.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20021231154158.GA22986@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <20021231154158.GA22986@fishballoon.dyndns.org>
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On Tuesday 31 December 2002 07:41 am, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just spent a fun day upgrading ~180 ports that were about a year > out of date, which will teach me not to be so lazy in future :-(=20 > Anyway, portupgrade coped with most of this mess admirably, except > for (unsurprisingly) the KDE2 --> KDE3 upgrade. > > Portupgrade simply refused to upgrade kdelibs-2.2.2 to the latest > 3.0.5_1, I suspect because the install required some file that > portupgrade was deinstalling along with the rest of 2.2.2, before it > installed 3.0.5. So in the end I just installed 3.0.5 on top of the > old version, presumably leaving various rubbish from the old > installation on my system. This allowed the rest of the upgrades to > proceed happily. Most of us upgraded to XFree86-4.x at the same time. The HEADSUP=20 instruction at the time were to completely delete both of them and then=20 upgrade install the new versions. Kent > > Pkgdb moticed later that I had two kdelibs installed, and helpfully > offered to deregister one for me. I took it up on this, and ended up > with a new file +CONTENTS.kdelibs-2.2.2 under > /var/db/pkg/kdelibs-3.0.5_1, alongside the usual +CONTENTS for the > new version. > > First question: Will any of the pkg* tools make use of this file so > that I can, for example, deinstall the new version plus the leftover > bits of the old version, next time I upgrade? > > Second question: If not, is there a nice automated way to find (and > remove) stray files left behind by old packages that weren't properly > removed? I could put together a script to find anything in > /usr/{local,X11R6} that doesn't belong to any installed package, but > maybe this wheel has already been invented? > > Thanks in advance & happy new year, > > =09Scott --=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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