Re: Updates still broken

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:50:00PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> "make replace"'s job is to compile the new package, pkg_tarup the old,
> pkg_delete the old package, and install the new package.  There is, and
> will be, no "pkg_add -u" in that mix at all.

make replace does a lot more than that. It does in a very hackish way what
pkg_add -u is doing. If you don't use DESTDIR, it is the only option as
installation is directly manipulating /usr/pkg.

Joerg