Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:01:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com> To: Christian Taylor <phazer@ns.sympatico.ca> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912191658330.6030-100000@merlin.onsea.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLMNOHKHIPCJHGCKJCEDBCBAA.phazer@ns.sympatico.ca>
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> I have a question about ports/packages that's been bugging me for a while > now. What happens when you want to UPGRADE a port or a package? For > example, right now I have the port of pine 4.10 installed. I'd like to > upgrade this to the latest port of pine 4.21. Do I need to uninstall the > old port first? Or will the new port see that I had the old one installed, > and upgrade it appropriatly? Basically, I don't want to have both 4.10 AND > 4.21 installed. And this applies to any other ports as well, not just pine. If you uninstall the old package/port, any configuration files will be left intact. The same applies to installing the new package/port, configuration files are left alone. Even so, after an upgrade, you should read the documentation in /usr/ports/<section>/<port>/work/<extract_dir>. Especially CHANGES. You may find that the structure of the configuration files has changed, and you may need to modify yours as appropriate. The same applies to any software installations on most operating systems. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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