php4 install has conflicts

Noah admin2 at enabled.com
Wed Dec 15 12:16:02 PST 2004


> 
> I could be wrong about this, but I don't believe you need to 
> reinstall those ports. Just force delete all old versions of mod-
> php4 and then install the new version of php4 or mod-php4 (whichever 
> one you actually want). The other ports shouldn't need to be 
> reinstalled, because the new version of php installs to the same 
> location as the old version. Hence the ports that use it will just 
> use the new version automatically. You may also want to clean up the 
> duplicate gallery versions by using pkg_delete -f to remove both 
> versions and then install just the latest version of gallery.
> 
> To avoid this problem in the future, always use portupgrade to 
> upgrade your ports. That way you won't get multiple versions installed!


okay thank you,

do you know of a command that can show me all the ports that are installed on
my machine?  is there a nice tutorial that explains how to use the ports
efficiently and safetly?

cheers,

Noah


> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ian Moore
> 
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