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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:09:46 -0400
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
To:        George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gimp-devel
Message-ID:  <20031007230946.GM96543@toxic.magnesium.net>
In-Reply-To: <200310072258.h97MwAL3008648@rosebud.alerce.com>
References:  <200310072258.h97MwAL3008648@rosebud.alerce.com>

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>> (10.07.2003 @ 1858 PST): George Hartzell said, in 1.1K: <<
> I just cvs updated my /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-devel directory and
> tried to do a portupgrade.  It failed, saying that I already had it
> installed.  I tried a portupgrade -f ...., which failed similarly.
> 
> I did a manual make deinstall and am still stuck.
> 
> Now when I try a make install it seems to build and install everything
> completely, but when it gets around to trying to register the package,
> it seems to recursively spawn make processes until the machine grinds
> to a halt (over 261).
> 
> Do I need to cvs update the entire ports/gnome tree and recompile
> everything (a two day proposition?)
> 
> The machine is running:
> 
> FreeBSD rosebud.alerce.com 4.8-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p7 #15: Mon Sep 29 20:48:22 PDT 2003     root@rosebud.alerce.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROSEBUD  i386
> 
> And the ports tree represents a consistent cvs update  except for this
> one sneaky maneuver.
>> end of "gimp-devel" from George Hartzell <<

Keeping your ports tree up-to-date isn't terribly useful unless you keep
the installed ports up-to-date too.

# Adam


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