Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:35:42 +0100 From: Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion Message-ID: <4D51389E.6040803@executive-computing.de> In-Reply-To: <44tyge7n5f.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv> <44aai7vh5b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4D511D49.4010704@inbox.lv> <44tyge7n5f.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote on 08.02.2011 12:59: > Mikael Bak <mbak@inbox.lv> 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. The OP should keep an eye on dependencies, though. A good foot-shooter is updating one port, and then, during updating a different port having to install a newer version of a port they both depend on. Which might require a rebuild of the original port, resulting in having, at best, double-downtime of a service. Incidentially, I ran into this just right now, so I felt compelled to state what might seem obious :) [...] MfG CoCo PS: I seem to remember devel/pcre being a good candidate for that with postfix and some other ports.
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