upgrade a port
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Fri Apr 23 14:14:27 PDT 2004
Chiang Seng Chang writes:
> portupgrade wont work because ver 22 was not installed in the
> first place.
>
> pkg_deinstall ver 21 wont work because there are dependencies.
>
> portinstall ver 22 wont work because ver 21 is there.
>
> how do i get out of this catch-22 ?
pkg_delete -f <old pkg>
pkgdb -F # just to be sure
portinstall <new pkg>
(Crude, but effective.)
Robert Huff
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