From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 30 22: 8:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDFA37B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:08:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from natto.numachi.com (natto.numachi.com [198.175.254.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1398D43E75 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:08:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 11475 invoked by uid 1001); 31 Oct 2002 06:08:15 -0000 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:08:15 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: Adam Weinberger Cc: Brian Reichert , Larry Rosenman , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How flexible _is_ the use of ports? Message-ID: <20021031010815.T618@numachi.com> References: <20021030212408.N618@numachi.com> <1036031219.442.13.camel@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> <20021030213055.P618@numachi.com> <1036031545.442.15.camel@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> <20021030222723.Q618@numachi.com> <1036034966.83261.2.camel@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> <20021030223732.R618@numachi.com> <1036035547.83261.4.camel@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> <20021030224350.S618@numachi.com> <20021031035136.GX197@vectors.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021031035136.GX197@vectors.cx>; from adamw@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:51:36PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:51:36PM -0800, Adam Weinberger wrote: > The problem seems to be that the libraries from graphics/tiff are still > there, but the entry in the port database isn't. It's fastest to just > install the port manually, and stick to using portupgrade in the future > when you want to upgrade stuff, portinstall when you want to add stuff, > and pkg_deinstall when you wish to delete stuff. Ok, I manualy reintroduced all of the components that pkgdb whined about, then I was in fact able to execute 'portupgrade -fRr mozilla', and it indeed went though all of the machinations. So, I thank all of your for help in hand-holding. Regrettably, my orginal problem with the mozilla browser still seems in place, so I'm uncertain how to advance on this without a full reinstall... > > -Adam > -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message