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Date:      Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:29:35 -0900
From:      Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
To:        Joshua Delong Thomas <jdt2101@ksu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interrupted cvsup
Message-ID:  <01010621293508.76585@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101062317040.9110-100000@unix2.cc.ksu.edu>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101062317040.9110-100000@unix2.cc.ksu.edu>

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On Saturday 06 January 2001 20:29, you wrote:
> Yes, I'm a newbie, and I just tried to cvsup my ports tree.  However, for
> aviplay to be installed, I need the newest version of qt, like 2.25 or
> something like that.  To get that, I have to uninstall 2.21 which I have
> right now.  However, in the ports tree under qt2.1 there is no makefile,
> only a work directory and a readme file.  The work directory has some more
> make files, but I'm not sure exactly what the work directory is there for,
> and none of the makefiles are the correct ones to deinstall qt.  I'm lost
> here, I don't exactly know what makefiles do, and I don't know how to get
> back what I lost when I cvsupped.  I looked at the cvsup logfile, and I
> found the files, but I didn't know what I was looking at.  Is there a way
> I can rebuild the ports tree to what I had, or find that makefile, or even
> go through and delete everything that qt2.1 installled?  I didn't find
> anything on this in cvsup or anywhere in the manual.
>
> -Josh

BTW, to deinstall qt do a "pkg_info" to find the exact name of qt
then do "pkg_delete qt-2.1" (or whatever the name is).


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