From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 11:59:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177E7106566C for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:59:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43EC8FC0A for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20796 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2011 11:59:16 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Feb 2011 11:59:16 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.8]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537E550828; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 06:59:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id EED9C3981F; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 06:59:08 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Mikael Bak References: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv> <44aai7vh5b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4D511D49.4010704@inbox.lv> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:59:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D511D49.4010704@inbox.lv> (Mikael Bak's message of "Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:39:05 +0100") Message-ID: <44tyge7n5f.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:59:17 -0000 Mikael Bak writes: > I was not aware I could just install the same software over the other > without first removing it. Shouldn't I do that? I would not want to end > up with a broken software or a broken ports database. No, you want to remove the old port before installing the new one. But you can *build* the new port before removing the old one. > If I would set my mind on editing the ports database by hand, where > should I look for it? /var/db/pkg (but as I said earlier, it's not worthwhile)