From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 31 12:07:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A858F16A420 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:07:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mon.si@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A17CE13C448 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:07:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mon.si@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 2389 invoked by uid 0); 31 Dec 2007 12:07:02 -0000 Received: from 85.25.141.60 by www022.gmx.net with HTTP; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:07:02 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:07:02 +0100 From: "Mon Si" In-Reply-To: <20071230180415.bvf80bd6hsgk48cc@www.boosten.org> Message-ID: <20071231120702.203150@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20071228175444.93100@gmx.net> <477544BC.4070009@math.missouri.edu> <584BD35A-01ED-495C-B579-1507C0444E3E@gmail.com> <20071230180415.bvf80bd6hsgk48cc@www.boosten.org> To: Peter Boosten , mnslinky@gmail.com X-Authenticated: #20452226 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19k1SsD/S5kEdkoXTc1pzQyN1JslGP2ArBQvg/CvW vH9LuSHhm7qIypp5YnQ8xV5mrJ/oP6aL3c6w== Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-GMX-UID: UulPcDI2bGInPPtlVWVnTBlvcmZ1Ztzu Cc: stephen@math.missouri.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:07:04 -0000 Peter Boosten wrote, on 12/30/07 18:04: > Quoting Eric Crist : >> On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >>> Mon Si wrote: >>>> Dear list, >>>> I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the >>>> xorg-driver port. The old version of the port can't be >>>> uninstalled during the portupgrade due to an undefined prefix. >>>> The port can't be deleted by "pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3" >>>> Does anybody know how to upgrade / remove this port? >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> Simon >>> >>> If nothing else works, you could try >>> rm -rf /var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3 >> >> If I remember correctly, there are detailed instructions in >> /usr/ports/UPDATING -- go back to notes for sometime in May of >> 2007, and there's a really long entry on upgraded to Xorg 7.x >> from 6.9. I think the entry specifically mentions 7.2, but it >> should work for 7.3 as well. >> > > The following worked for me: In > /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers do make config > > then portupgrade -f xorg-drivers > > Peter > Thanks a lot for the suggestions! Removing /var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3 worked, the "make config && portupgrade -f xorg-drivers" method gave me the same error message as before. However I don't really understand why this prefix thing shows up well after the upgrade from 6.9 to 7.2. Perhaps I cvsup'd at a bad time. Simon -- -- -- -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail