Multiple port versions
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Wed Jan 3 08:13:07 PST 2007
Vizion writes:
> What is the safest way to remove the earlier versions?
By not doing so.
Different ports use different versions of the same program;
this especially true with things like "automake" and "autoconf".
(In the latter two instances there's a push on to unify some or all
of these ... but that day is not today.)
If I _had_ to do this, I would:
run "pkgdb -F"
for each port {
run "pkg_info -R" on each port
if and only if no other ports are listed under "required
by", delete the port
run "pkgdb -F"
}
Robert Huff
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