From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 12:09:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD79416A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:09:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.insoftosra.it (host-34-67.noicomnet.it [81.92.34.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10EA043D2D for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:09:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davide@sito.it) Received: (qmail 16217 invoked by uid 507); 17 Feb 2005 12:11:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO davide) (81.92.34.66) by 0 with SMTP; 17 Feb 2005 12:11:10 -0000 Message-ID: <00ab01c514e9$85bf2800$6601a8c0@insoft.it> From: "Davide Lemma" To: "Heinrich Rebehn" , References: <421467C0.9060801@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:09:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: Re: Annoying ports problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Davide Lemma List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:09:31 -0000 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" To: 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" >