Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:47:18 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD pkg system vs Debian dpkg Message-ID: <E0vGTsF-0000ZE-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:16:07 PDT." <11834.846130567@time.cdrom.com> References: <11834.846130567@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <11834.846130567@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : > - ports dependencies are a little simple- there's a check if needed libs : > (e.g. tcl/tk/perl etc.) are installed, if not, they're installed, too. : > But pkg_add isn't checking if an older version of the to-be-installed : > package exists. You're ending up with many different pkg entries if you : > don't take care about this. : : You should get back to the poster and suggest that he update his package : sets and tools - this was fixed with an MD5 checksum method about a : month ago. You have fixed the problem where I have gerbils 1.1 installed, and then build gerbils 1.2 and I still have the gerbils 1.1 packge in /var/db/pkg and maybe some stale files laying around from gerbils 1.1? I don't recall seeing this change go by, but would bless those that made it happen if that was the case :-). : I, of course, plan to do both. Jordan, one of the first signs you are going mad is when you start to do imitations of the animals around you. I had to get a job outside the house because my dinnertime converstaion with friends with friends was "and here's how my black lab Snickers eats his dinner, its so cute..." Warner
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