From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 13:17:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1A116A420 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:17:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B2513C4AA for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:17:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9RDHJH6033868; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:17:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id swXUwCnYAgmH; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:17:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9RDH8Ug033860; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:17:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <47233A4F.5010405@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:17:03 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dino Vliet References: <846671.31803.qm@web51102.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <846671.31803.qm@web51102.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond? 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: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:17:21 -0000 Dino Vliet wrote: > Dear FreeBSD folks, > > I want to upgrade my ports but as I'm following the > /usr/ports/UPDATING file, it advised me to run the > command pkgdb -Ff. > > When I do I get this: > > pkgdb -Ff > ---> Checking the package registry database > Duplicated origin: devel/autoconf261 - autoconf-2.53_4 > autoconf-2.61_2 > Unregister any of them? [no] > > I don't know how to respond actually. The questioned > packages are installed: > > pkg_info | grep autoconf > autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source > code on many Un*x platforms > autoconf-2.53_4 Automatically configure source > code on many Un*x platforms > autoconf-2.61_2 Automatically configure source > code on many Un*x platforms > autoconf-wrapper-20070404 Wrapper script for GNU > autoconf > > What is wisdom here? Which one of them can I > unregister? Hi, Dino: Answer "yes" to the question shown above. You will then be asked whether you would like to "unregister autoconf-2.53_4, leaving the installed files intact". If, at this point, the system looks like it has the concept, go ahead and allow it to change the package database. After doing this for what seems like forever (well, maybe, maybe not), you should have a pkgdb that portupgrade is comfortable with. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. -- Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man