Jim Weeks:
>On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, David Bushong wrote:
>> I'll try to put a "cleanup" mode in one of these days, but it's rather nasty,
>> since basically you have to:
>>
>> pkg_delete all of the versions (including the most recent), pkg_delete all
>> of the programs that depended on older versions, reinstall/rebuild the most
>> recent version, then rebuild the dependent packages.
>
>You don't really have to do this. You can remove the info files for the
>old versions from /var/db/pkg/. For instance, if you have checked
>pkg_info and found you have two versions of zip ie zip-2.3 and zip-2.2,
>simply rm -r /var/db/pkg/zip-2.2
Disagree. Consider that zip-2.2 had added a file /usr/local/where/ever
which is no longer part of zip-2.3. Now you want that one cleaned up as
well, don't you?
Having two versions of one port installed is generally a Bad Thing as
it may result in orphan files.
Helge
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