Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:01:05 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc? Message-ID: <20070811190105.GA28451@rot26.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070811175141.GA85304@redundancy.redundancy.org> References: <20070811115642.L34115@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <20070811175141.GA85304@redundancy.redundancy.org>
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--fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:51:41AM -0700, David Ericson Thiel wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:03:33PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > Did one upgrade applications through a series of "make deinstall reinst= all"=20 > > commands (I wonder if these commands take care of dependencies too) or = was=20 > > there any other way? >=20 > I used pkg_version -c, which has now been removed. It spit out a > shell script that did the relevant upgrade commands, but wasn't > perfect. OpenBSD still has this option, and it's a perl script, > so you can probably still use that one if you're allergic to > portupgrade/portmaster. It was removed because it was dangerous. You could still use it if you choose, but as we're discussing it's an antiquated and obsoleted not-really-upgrade method. Kris --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGvgdxWry0BWjoQKURAsU6AKDp3Gsi8Nm3of4qAT4Q8wcC2eb6FwCfZoS3 fdi5A7r1d8d5Q9DHncr7qxE= =mBn9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N--
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