Upgrading the Installed package

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Wed Feb 6 04:40:41 PST 2008


> Now i have made some changes in my product and created a package on Machine
> B using pkg_create, and it is my 1.1 version.
>
> I want to install this(1.1) version on machine A(which is having 1.0 already
> installed) .
>
> one way is to remove 1.0 and install 1.1 on machine A, but i cannot afford
> to do so. IS there any way to upgrade it to 1.1 without uninstalling?
> pkg_update command is not present.

there is no way with pkg_tools to do that


>
> I hope i am clear with what i want.
>
> Help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Navneet
>
>
> On 2/6/08, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>>
>> while i usually did this think manually i would try portmaster next time i
>> will need an upgrade. and - thanks to your explanation - i will avoid
>> portupgrade.
>>
>> thank you.
>>
>>>
>>> One such tool is portmaster (ports-mgmt/portmaster), maintained by Doug
>>> Barton.  It's actively maintained and written in sh.  Its author is
>>> quite active with freebsd-ports, and is quick to respond to both bug
>>> reports and feature requests.
>>>
>>> --
>>> | Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com|
>>> | Parodius Networking                           http://www.parodius.com/|
>>> | UNIX Systems Administrator                      Mountain View, CA, USA
>> |
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