Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:49:13 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cleaning old packages (was: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <20020709154912.GA20718@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020709113549.GA249@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020709113549.GA249@lpt.ens.fr>
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In the last episode (Jul 09), Rahul Siddharthan said: > I'm not subscribed to this list but I happened on this discussion in > the archives today. > > One mild peeve I've had about FreeBSD's ports system is the > difficulty of deleting an old package which has been overwritten by a > new package. Suppose you had installed foo-1.3.1, and then another > port you were installing overwrote this with foo-1.3.2. Now both are > registered in /var/db/pkg but you can't pkg_delete foo-1.3.1 because > it will remove files with common names from foo-1.3.2. If you use portupgrade to install ports and packages, it will deinstall the old port before installing the new one. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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