Re: Annoying ports problem

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:10:41 -0800

you're in the wrong way... to update all your ports you must use portupgrade from ports, but if you are sure what u'r doing simply add FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes in your /etc/make.conf but after time you could have some trouble in your PKGDB

bye Davide

----- Original Message ----- From: "Heinrich Rebehn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: Annoying ports problem


Hi list,

I have run into an annoying problem several times when upgrading ports.

Say, if i want to upgrade gstreamer-plugins, i do:

# cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins
# make

This pulls in some dependencies, for example gnomevfs2. gnnomevfs2 will compile fine, but then stops because it wants to install gnomevfs2 instead of reinstalling it:

===> An older version of devel/gnomevfs2 is already installed (gnomevfs2-2.9.91)
You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
If you really wish to overwrite the old port of devel/gnomevfs2
without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
in your environment or the "make install" command line.
*** Error code 1

Since i have run into this several times, i must be missing something substantial. What is it?

Regards,
--

Heinrich Rebehn

University of Bremen
Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Department of Telecommunications -

Phone : +49/421/218-4664
Fax : -3341
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