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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 2001 00:02:39 +0100
From:      "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pkg_update
Message-ID:  <00c501c092ec$678e73a0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102080152030.58657-100000@arnold.neland.dk> <20010207202335.C20454@peorth.iteration.net> <20010208232645.A86390@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:23:35PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Leif Neland scribbled:
> > | It seems pkg_update is only usable when installing from packages, not from
> > | ports.
> > 
> > Because it is a package update system.  If you want to update
> > from the ports, use 'pkg_version -c |sh'
> 
> Never, ever, *ever* do this.
> 

Just installing a new version of a port seems to work.

Couldn't it be made possible to use just the update-of-dependencies part of pkg_update without doing the pkg_delete/pkg_install bit?

Perhaps I'll try...

Leif



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