Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:37:22 +0200 From: Tobias Roth <freebsd.lists@fsck.ch> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc? Message-ID: <46BD8352.4000605@fsck.ch> In-Reply-To: <20070811084358.GA21364@rot26.obsecurity.org> References: <20070811115642.L34115@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <20070811084358.GA21364@rot26.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:03:33PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just a question that struck me today. Before there were the portupgrade >> and other tools for upgrading installed applications to their newer >> versions, how did things work out? >> >> Did one upgrade applications through a series of "make deinstall >> reinstall" commands (I wonder if these commands take care of dependencies >> too) or was there any other way? > > Basically that, plus a lot of other manual steps that were always > somewhat hard to get exactly right but which more or less worked back > in the days when Gnomes lived in your garden and Java was a place on > the map. It was a simpler, more innocent age. There was pkg_version -c that printed a sequence of cd /usr/ports/foo/bar make make deinstall make install make clean or something like that. Whatever broke was fixed manually afterwards :-) Oh, and there was no UPDATING in /usr/ports/ as well I think.
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