Subject: Re: Upgrading packages / multiple versions
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20020317T082705@wsrcc.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/17/2002 17:19:06
On 17 Mar 2002, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:

>
> rb-netbsd@BigScaryChildren.net (Rick Byers) writes:
> > How to others deal with this situation?  Do people reall just rebuild
> > Gnome, etc. all the time?
>
> Out of curiosity I did let a "pkg_chk -u -s" run to completion.  I got
> dizzy counting how many times it ripped out gnome and reinstalled it.
>
> I couldn't immediately see any program that would do a pkg_delete on
> everything and then reinstall everything that used to be there from
> scratch.  It would certainly have been faster.

	I tend to setup a pkgchk.conf file, then 'pkg_chk -ra'
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