Bug 15405

Summary: Ports Don't Upgrade
Product: Base System Reporter: dave
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3.3-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description dave 1999-12-10 17:40:00 UTC 
1.  Install FreeBSD 3.3
2.  Install a few things from /usr/ports
3.  Wait a few weeks
4.  Find something thats been upgraded.
5.  Upgrade it by typing "make xxxxx????"

WHY can't we have a make upgrade target?  It would almost make sense, and doing a make deinstall doesn't work if your ports collection is up to date, and who wants to have to type all that stuff to do a pkg_delete

Ugh.  I know, if you don't like it, fix it yourself.  Would if I had a clue how.

How-To-Repeat: Follow 1 to 5 above
Comment 1 alex 1999-12-10 17:45:16 UTC 
Thus spake dave@syix.com (dave@syix.com):

> WHY can't we have a make upgrade target?  It would almost make sense, and doing a make deinstall doesn't work if your ports collection is up to date, and who wants to have to type all that stuff to do a pkg_delete

Some of the FreeBSD developers thought about a version control system
at FreeBSD-Con. It's in development (I believe), or it's at least
planned. It's much work, so please be patient :)

This is really not something for a PR, please close.

Alex

-- 
I doubt, therefore I might be.
Comment 2 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1999-12-13 11:53:40 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Use pkg_delete to remove packages installed via the ports system.