upgrade a port

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Apr 23 15:26:53 PDT 2004


Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> writes:

> 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.)

Slightly less crude would be something like 
portupgrade -o <new pkg> -f <old pkg>


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