From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 29 14:28: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798B637B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:28:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA26274 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:28:05 -0600 (CST) Received: from confusion.net (dhcp089069.res-hall.nwu.edu [199.74.89.69]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma026231; Sun, 29 Oct 00 16:27:42 -0600 Message-ID: <39FCA42D.5462149D@confusion.net> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:26:53 -0600 From: Laurence Berland X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrade a port Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm trying to upgrade KDE2 from a pre- to the current version. I had previously installed using the metaport, so I go to /usr/ports/x11/kde2 and type 'make deinstall.' Now I go 'make' but nothing happens dhcp089221# make dhcp089221# make reinstall just reinstalls the same stuff again, by just finding that all the things it depends on have been installed, and then reregistering itself dhcp089221# make reinstall ===> Installing for kde-2.0 ===> kde-2.0 depends on executable: konqueror - found ===> kde-2.0 depends on executable: kjumpingcube - found ===> kde-2.0 depends on executable: kdf - found ===> kde-2.0 depends on executable: kword - found ===> kde-2.0 depends on executable: kppp - found ===> kde-2.0 depends on executable: pixie - found ===> kde-2.0 depends on executable: kaiman - found ===> kde-2.0 depends on shared library: kdecore.4 - found ===> Generating temporary packing list ===> Registering installation for kde-2.0 Any ideas on the cleanest way to deal with all this and upgrade kde2 from sources? -- Laurence Berland Intern, Flooz.com Northwestern '04 stuyman@confusion.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message