On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:51:41AM -0700, David Ericson Thiel wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:03:33PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > 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? > > I used pkg_version -c, which has now been removed. It spit out a > shell script that did the relevant upgrade commands, but wasn't > perfect. OpenBSD still has this option, and it's a perl script, > so you can probably still use that one if you're allergic to > portupgrade/portmaster.
It was removed because it was dangerous. You could still use it if you choose, but as we're discussing it's an antiquated and obsoleted not-really-upgrade method. Kris
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