From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 13:45:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEFE37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao07.cox.net (lakemtao07.cox.net [68.1.17.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF4143F75 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:45:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.11]) by lakemtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030717204501.XMUW26675.lakemtao07.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:45:01 -0400 To: jbryant@democrats.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <3F170923.5080502@democrats.com> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jeremy Messenger MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:44:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3F170923.5080502@democrats.com> User-Agent: Opera7.11/Linux M2 build 406 Subject: Re: port upgrading problems.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:45:02 -0000 On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:37:55 -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > I am having a problem building the upgraded versions of XF86-4 and KDE > > The problem is that it sees my XF86-4.2.x files and says that 4.3.x is > already installed. > > Same for the KDE-3.1.2 upgrade from KDE-3.0.x > > How can I force these builds to proceed, while retaining my current > versions at least until I'm ready to install the new versions after they > are built? You should start to use portupgrade, which it can be install in the sysutils/portupgrade. It's a great tool that will upgrade all the apps what you have installed from the ports tree. 1) pkgdb -F (to fix stuff) 2) portupgrade -ra (upgrade all apps) If you don't want the portupgrade, then you can use the FORCE_PKG_REGISTER define. But, I think it's best to do pkg_delete (to uninstall) and install the new X. Cheers, Mezz > Apparently, the ports makefiles are not checking version numbers, but > only the existance of files that seem to be common between versions. > > Jim -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.