Re: New package format

ipkg update; for i in `ipkg status|grep opie|cut -d" " -f2`; do ipkg
remove $i; ipkg install $i; done;

On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 13:24, Matthew Hixson wrote:
> 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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