How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc?
Tobias Roth
freebsd.lists at fsck.ch
Sat Aug 11 03:00:35 PDT 2007
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.
There was pkg_version -c that printed a sequence of
cd /usr/ports/foo/bar
make
make deinstall
make install
make clean
or something like that. Whatever broke was fixed manually afterwards :-)
Oh, and there was no UPDATING in /usr/ports/ as well I think.
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