On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:21:08 +0000, Giovanni wrote:

> 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

Thank you for the suggestion. Saves a lot of time and angst!



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Peter