Subject: Re: Software versions in fresh NetBSD Install?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/06/2003 09:12:14
On Tue, 6 May 2003, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Roger Fischer wrote:
>
> > Now, if /usr/pkg/bin is before /usr/bin in my search path I'm guessing
> > that I'll have to pkg-delete the version in /usr/pkg/bin if the version
> > installed by 1.6.1 is newer than the one I installed via pkgsrc.
> > Correct?
>
> That will be a good idea. (But if you keep your pkgsrc up-to-date,
> probably the versions in it will be newer.)
>
> (By the way, pkgsrc/security/openssh can be installed to /usr instead
> of /usr/pkg by defining UPDATE_INTREE_OPENSSH.)

But then, of course, when you update to NetBSD 1.6.2, and it still
doesn't have a newer openssh than pkgsrc, you'll have downgraded.

Frederick