From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 30 17:29:51 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7269016A417 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:29:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3005F13C469 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:29:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [213.51.146.189] (port=40233 helo=smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J91aH-0001fH-VR; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:04:22 +0100 Received: from cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl ([84.25.65.88]:4805 helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J91aF-0006b9-DI; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:04:21 +0100 Received: by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix, from userid 80) id 17AC339885; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:04:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from VAL00653.egypt.nl (VAL00653.egypt.nl [192.168.13.53]) by www.boosten.org (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:04:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20071230180415.bvf80bd6hsgk48cc@www.boosten.org> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:04:15 +0100 From: Peter Boosten To: Eric Crist References: <20071228175444.93100@gmx.net> <477544BC.4070009@math.missouri.edu> <584BD35A-01ED-495C-B579-1507C0444E3E@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <584BD35A-01ED-495C-B579-1507C0444E3E@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.5) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , Mon Si , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:29:51 -0000 Quoting Eric Crist : > On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >> Mon Si wrote: >>> Dear list, >>> I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the xorg-driver >>> port. The old version of the port can't be uninstalled during the >>> portupgrade due to an undefined prefix. >>> The port can't be deleted by "pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3" >>> Does anybody know how to upgrade / remove this port? >>> Thanks in advance, >>> =09Simon >> >> If nothing else works, you could try >> rm -rf /var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3 > > If I remember correctly, there are detailed instructions in > /usr/ports/UPDATING -- go back to notes for sometime in May of 2007, > and there's a really long entry on upgraded to Xorg 7.x from 6.9. I > think the entry specifically mentions 7.2, but it should work for 7.3 > as well. > The following worked for me: In /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers do make config then portupgrade -f xorg-drivers Peter --=20 http://www.boosten.org