On Sat, 21 May 2005 15:49:03 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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... See /usr/ports/UPDATING for perl entries and possible workarounds to reinstalling perl dependent ports. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
