How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc?

[Kris Kennaway]

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 reinstall" 
> > commands (I wonder if these commands take care of dependencies too) or was 
> > there any other way?
> 
> 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
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