On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:37:22AM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: > 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.
Old-timers will tell you that pkg_version is a new-fangled invention, and back in the day they had to slave for hours over a hot keyboard to run all those make commands by hand :) Kris
pgpkQZ83MN9n1.pgp
Description: PGP signature