Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:11:52 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Munish Chopra <messiah_man@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating of ports, pkg_version -c script Message-ID: <3ACE2308.832594E7@urx.com> References: <F119pzpNGBPSTgOJeCB00001538@hotmail.com>
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Munish Chopra wrote: > > Hi, > > The script generated by 'pkg_version -c' includes a command to delete the > old port 'pkg_delete -f portname'. Before I hose up my system doing dumb > things, how would this work? Does this require that you build a port in it's > directory, do a pkg_create, and install it that way? Or can this pkg_delete > stuff work even if I just used 'make install'? > > And lets suppose I run one of these scripts, and I am running KDE or GNOME. > Would the session just die or what? Should I go into single-user mode before > running any of this stuff, in case things like that need upgrading? Part of the problem with using it as it is genereated is the order that it is created in. You can have dependancies that are built after the port that uses them. This would produce run time links to code that are different than build dependancies used when the port was built. Kde would be built in alphabetic order and not starting with kdesupport2, kdelibs2, and etc. From personal experience, messing with the KDE port while you are running it usually produces a hung desktop. Kent > > If anyone could shed some light on this, that'd be great. > > -Munish Chopra > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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