On 05/05/08 11:46, Peter wrote:

> What happens when I do upgradepkg --install-new for a package
> group, but I have several installed that are newer? Will my newer
> packages be overwritten? For example, I have glib2 2.16.3 installed
> yet Slackware 12.1 has version 2.14.6. When I upgrade the 'l'
> directory, will that get overwritten?

Yes it will be overwritten. upgradepkg does not look for newer
packages but only for different versions.

I usually run upgradepkg with the option --dry-run to build a batch of
the packages that will be upgraded or not. Then I remove from the
list the ones I don't want upgraded.

Ciao
Giovanni
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