Re: New package format

Would it be possible to modify that command to automagically reinstall
each of the packages immediately after they've been removed so that we
don't have to reinstall everything by hand?
  Thanks,
   -M@

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Benjamin Long wrote:

> We've changed the names of the packages to make versioning saner. The
> packages now have a timestamp in them instead of the "-beta#" subversion.
> Unfortunately, ipkg chokes on this if you try to upgrade from the older
> packages. It thinks the packages are a lower version number. To get around
> this, you can run:
> for i in `ipkg status|grep opie|cut -d" " -f2`; do ipkg remove $i; done;
> This will remove all the old opie-* packages and allow you to install the new
> ones.
>
> Sorry for the hiccup.
>
> Benjamin Long
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Received on Fri Feb 22 2002 - 11:23:56 EST