How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:03:33PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a question that struck me today. Before there were the portupgrade 
> and other tools for upgrading installed applications to their newer 
> versions, how did things work out?
> 
> 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?

Basically that, plus a lot of other manual steps that were always
somewhat hard to get exactly right but which more or less worked back
in the days when Gnomes lived in your garden and Java was a place on
the map.  It was a simpler, more innocent age.

Kris
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