From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 17:26:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB7F16A41F for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:26:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joey@mingrone.org) Received: from mail.mingrone.org (fuf.mingrone.org [204.251.2.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A99F43D54 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:26:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joey@mingrone.org) Received: from localhost (fuf [204.251.2.34]) by mail.mingrone.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518CEFE57 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:26:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Joey Mingrone To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:26:44 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505241426.44751.joey@mingrone.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: installing / updating ports on an older (4.8 system) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:26:47 -0000 Hi, I have a box running 4.8. I only have ssh access so I can't update the OS at the moment, but I would like to update certain ports. I'm running into a few problems. The worst is when I update a port it tries to update / install dependencies that are already up to date. For example, when I try to update vim, it tries to install gmake-3.80_2, which is already installed. The build/install ends with the following error message: ===> Installing for gmake-3.80_2 ===> Generating temporary packing list ===> Checking if devel/gmake already installed ===> gmake-3.80_2 is already installed 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/gmake without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" in your environment or the "make install" command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pkgconfig. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/vim. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade34605.0 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! editors/vim (vim-6.3.16) (unknown build error) ---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed I did try the make deinstall / reinstall but with the same results. If I unistall gmake (and other dependencies) then just build vim, it will work, but deinstalling dependencies before every update is a little cumbersome. A second and possibly related problem is that building an index fails. I read the following on http://freebsd.org/ports The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches. Older releases are not supported and may or may not work correctly with an up-to-date ports collection. So am I out of luck or is there any help out there? Thanks, Joey