From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 23:06:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20220 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:06:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20121 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:06:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA25285; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:06:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:06:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Allan cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports want to reinstall perl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Allan wrote: > When I try to download a port that has Perl as a dependency, the make > process fails to recognize Perl is on the system, so tries to install it. > It fails, because it discovers it's already installed. Then it tells > me to uninstall it, then reinstall. But as it turns out, this fails too. > I have tried twice uninstalling and reinstalling, and installing over the > current installation. No change. The ports system is confused as to the current state of Perl. I would suggest doing the following: cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5 make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER install That should update the checkpoint files and keep all the ports from complaining. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message