From owner-freebsd-ports Tue May 30 11:42:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5941237B5FB; Tue, 30 May 2000 11:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08989; Tue, 30 May 2000 12:42:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21215; Tue, 30 May 2000 12:42:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:42:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005301842.MAA21215@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Alich Cc: nate@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: jdk-1.1.8 In-Reply-To: <39294257.1810EFA1@cctinc.net> References: <39294257.1810EFA1@cctinc.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I downloaded this port and when I run either make or make install it > says the port is already installed and I could either uninstall and > reinstall the ports or use the FORCE_PACKAGE_REGISTER. > > Well knowing the port was not installed and the only way I could get the > package installed was to use the FORCE option, I did. Somehow, the port was installed, or at least the files in /var/db/pkg were installed. This happened on a co-worker's machine when they installed a package that accidentally contained files in /var/db/pkg. > Turns out the > install I think went in but erased my entire /var/db/pkg directory and > put some install info from the port in there. I certainly shouldn't have erased anything in /var/db/pkg. In any case, it sounds like something other than the port is wrong with your system. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message