Re: [newbie] replacing applications in the Base set?

[Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi%abou-zahra.net@localhost>]

Hi,

Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0200, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
> > Longer:
> > - I'm trying to update some of the applications in the Base set to
> > the latest versions. For instance OpenSSH, Postfix, or others. I
> > installed the corresponding packages using pkgsrc and now have two
> > installations (in /usr/bin and /usr/pkg/bin or in /usr/sbin and
> > /usr/pkg/sbin). How does one get rid of the older versions in
> > /usr/bin and /usr/sbin?
>
> Short:
>         Just leave 'em. :)

:) Sort of what I am doing (see below).


> Long:
>         There is no straightforward way to do that.  You could do an own
>         build and set MKPOSTFIX=no but that's just not worth the hustle.

Right. Also rebuilding all from source (as suggested by Andrew Gould) 
seems like an overkill (though it seems most sensible to try).


>         If you run Postfix from pkgsrc, make sure you've adjusted /etc/
>         mailer.conf and /etc/rc.conf.d/postfix (if you want to use the
>         existing postfix rc-script---not the one from pkgsrc)

OK, that's fairly simple for Postfix and other demons, to get them 
started up. But command line calls, such as ssh, seem trickier.


>         Also, check your PATH.  It should contain /usr/pkg/{,s}bin
>         before /usr/{,s}bin.

That is what I've done for now as a quick fix but I'm still wondering 
whether there is a more elegant way to update the applications.


Thanks,
  Shadi

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