From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 4 18:33:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28580 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28451 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25366; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: stefan@mdy.univie.ac.at cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 17:29:52 +0600." <199806041529.RAA07414@alpha.mdy.univie.ac.at> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 18:32:15 -0700 Message-ID: <25362.897010335@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > (1) Just to make sure: When I use pkg_add (or the ports collection) to > bring some of my installed stuff up to the most recent level, do older > versions of the software get automatically uninstalled? (Or is it safer > to do a pkg_delete followed by pkg_add first) You just pkg_delete and pkg_add them again; there is not (yet) any way to automatically upgrade packages. > (2) While the /usr/local/bin stuff is fairly clear, how do I go about upgrading the X-Windows system to 3.3.2? (either ports of packages, Reinstall it. :) > (3) How do I update the utilities in /stand (aside from sysinstall); or > is this truly not necessary? Not truly necessary, though if you really want to and have sources, you can upgrade sysinstall by going to /usr/src/release/sysinstall and doing a `make all install' as root. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message