On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:47:28PM -0500, Barry Pederson wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > >I'm trying to upgrade spamassassin, but portupgrade is stubling on every > >dependant port. It appears it wants to re-install each port, which of > >course doesn't work. It generates the make deinstall first error > >message. portupgrade -m -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER seems to have gotten around > >the problem, but I'm curious as to what's causing this. Anyone have any > >ideas? > > > >This is 4.11-RELEASE if that matters... > > Did you perhaps upgrade your Perl earlier? so that perhaps the existing > installed dependant ports are Perl packages for 5.6.1, but you now have > 5.6.2 and portupgrade thinks your dependant packages should be for that > - but it can't install them because the older versions for 5.6.1 are in > place.
I did recently go from 5.8 to 5.6. So that means all my perl stuff needs to re-install? That doesn't really make any sense... -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
