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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
