Package management question
Gerard
gerard at seibercom.net
Sun Apr 8 12:24:30 UTC 2007
On Sunday April 08, 2007 at 03:37:04 (AM) Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> mysql 5.1 is not ready for mainstream, AFAIK.
>
> You can install ports-mgmt/portupgrade and then use
> "portupgrade -o databases/somenewport someoldport"
> to upgrade an installed port to another one.
>
> pkg_delete -f oldport && cd newport && make install
>
> works fine, but you loose all the dependencies (kde
> won't depend on the newport).
1) Use 'pkg_delete -dfv name-of-port
2) Install the new port with portmanager
portmanager name-of-port -p -l
That will install the new port and properly correct all of the
dependencies on you machine that depend on the new port.
HTH
--
Gerard
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