upgrading ports

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Saturday 07 August 2004 13:38, Dancho Penev wrote:

> Once again, don't get me wrong, I haven't anything against portupgrade,
> but I'm feeling very well with "make deinstall" or "make install", so
> why don't we have "make upgrade" for instance ? I'm working on something
> similar and I just wonder why nobody was done this before, it's not a
> big challenge, just a couple of lines.

Actually it is a big challenge, and that's exactly why there is portupgrade. 
Just an automated make deinstall/install won't do - it will severely mess up 
recorded dependencies in your pkgdb, won't care for about updated shared 
libraries, won't make backups before uninstalling, etc etc etc.

Cut short: You _want_ to use portupgrade. It comes free with every ports tree, 
so there's no reason to be uncomfortable about it.

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