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| author | Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-31 03:32:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-31 03:32:59 +0000 |
| commit | bec4f9dedee947be2c4a0477a9a673e50e365906 (patch) | |
| tree | 874f603ee691aab08082d2929e46e1c43823be86 /ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 1c7f5e9b9c583f8e204328472cc33400e0ea0960 (diff) | |
| download | ports-bec4f9dedee947be2c4a0477a9a673e50e365906.tar.gz ports-bec4f9dedee947be2c4a0477a9a673e50e365906.zip | |
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diff --git a/ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr b/ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr index b887c8f95abe..f648ab0cdf40 100644 --- a/ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr +++ b/ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr @@ -3,16 +3,7 @@ Portupgrade is a tool to upgrade installed packages via the port. It upgrades ports without reinstalling dependent packages by directly modifying the package info recorded in the files under /var/db/pkg. -The procedures it takes is shown as follows: +You may want to use portversion which is a replacement of +pkg_version(8) optimized and cooperative with portupgrade. - 1. Build the corresponding port of the given installed package - 2. Fix the dependency info of the ones which depends on the given - package - 3. Save the +REQUIRED_BY list of the given package - 4. Uninstall the given package forcibly if -u is specified - 5. Install the new version via the port (built in <1>) - 6. Restore the +REQUIRED_BY list (saved in <3>) - -The usage can be shown by running it without arguments or with a -h. - -Author: Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> +Author: Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> |