Subject: Re: Global pkgsrc update
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/23/2004 16:04:02
In article <741015589.20040723151348@gmx.net>,
uhel <uhel@gmx.net> writes:
> Can anyone tell me why pkg_chk at first delets the old packages and then
> try to build new? If i don't know if i can build a new package or not, i
> wouldn't delete the old one....
Because it can't in most cases build the new ones when the old ones are
still there. Imagine package "foobar-libs" and "foobar-programs" got
updated. You can't build "foobar-programs" before you've updated the
"foobar-libs" package. But to do that you need to delete the old version
of "foobar-libs" and "foobar-programs" first to be able to install
"foobar-libs".
Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler http://scheler.de/~matthias/