Subject: Re: Installing mysql from package
To: Phil Brodd <philip-brodd@uiowa.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/04/2001 09:17:31
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Phil Brodd wrote:

> Now I've done it...  I had gotten an error when installing mysql-server
> version 3.22.32.  Now I have updated my package collection in /usr/pkgsrc,
> where I noticed there is a new version of mysql.
> 
> Now I can't seem to deinstall version 3.22.32, because the newer version is
> in pkgsrc.  Is there anything I can do to get rid of the old installation
> now?

?? You should be able to deinstall the older version regardless of what's
in pkgsrc.

1) (as root) pkg_delete mysql

2) (as anyone in group wheel) cd /usr/pkgsrc/databases/mysql; make
deinstall ...

Take care,

Bill