Subject: Re: Apropos package upgrading.
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/19/2001 23:24:17
[moved to tech-pkg]
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Greywolf wrote:
> It couldn't be that hard to modify the 'make update' bit to do a 'make
> reinstall' on the bits (or does it already do that?), could it?
If you think that's enough, then you didn't understand why the pkgs are
removed in the first place, sorry. :)
Programs and libs in the work-dir may be linked against the now-upgraded
package, they may use APIs that have changed, rely on different formats of
config files that were recognized by then-run configure scripts,
etc. etc. etc.
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>