In message <Pine.LNX.4.43.0502041536570.32296-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>, "
Jeremy C. Reed" writes:
>On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> ===> Installing for pkg_install-20050204
>> ===> pkg_install-20050106 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
>> *** If so, you may use either of:
>> ***  - "pkg_delete pkg_install-20050106" and "/usr/bin/make reinstall" to up
>grade properly
>> ***  - "/usr/bin/make update" to rebuild the package and all of its dependen
>cies
>> ***  - "/usr/bin/make replace" to replace only the package without re-linkin
>g
>> ***    dependencies, risking various problems.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>>
>> I'm loathe to do a pkg_delete on pkg_install; beyond that, are the
>> instructions now wrong?  The machine I'm running on is -current.
>
>My own pkg_install/Makefile has:
>+# Removing this package would break pkgsrc, so allow this package to
>+# reinstall over itself.
>+# XXX need to figure out a way not to have multiple pkg entries for old ones.
>+FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=    # defined
>
>This is messy because I end up with:
>
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr  8  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040330
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr  9  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040409
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 May 26  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040508
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 22  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040508nb1
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 22  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040508nb2
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan  7 10:02 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20050106
>
>
>It would be good if it could set PKG_TOOLS_BIN to the appropriate WRKSRC
>directory or set PKG_ADMIN and PKG_CREATE to work version at the
>right time.
>

Which suggests that I should do the 'make replace'.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb