Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:09:25 +0100 From: "Davide Lemma" <davide@sito.it> To: "Heinrich Rebehn" <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Annoying ports problem Message-ID: <00ab01c514e9$85bf2800$6601a8c0@insoft.it> References: <421467C0.9060801@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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you're in the wrong way... to update all your ports you must use portupgrade from ports, but if you are sure what u'r doing simply add FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes in your /etc/make.conf but after time you could have some trouble in your PKGDB bye Davide ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heinrich Rebehn" <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:45 AM Subject: Annoying ports problem > Hi list, > > I have run into an annoying problem several times when upgrading ports. > > Say, if i want to upgrade gstreamer-plugins, i do: > > # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins > # make > > This pulls in some dependencies, for example gnomevfs2. gnnomevfs2 will > compile fine, but then stops because it wants to install gnomevfs2 instead > of reinstalling it: > > ===> An older version of devel/gnomevfs2 is already installed > (gnomevfs2-2.9.91) > You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again > by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. > If you really wish to overwrite the old port of devel/gnomevfs2 > without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" > in your environment or the "make install" command line. > *** Error code 1 > > Since i have run into this several times, i must be missing something > substantial. What is it? > > Regards, > -- > > Heinrich Rebehn > > University of Bremen > Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering > - Department of Telecommunications - > > Phone : +49/421/218-4664 > Fax : -3341 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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