Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:58:48 -0400 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: jbryant@democrats.com, FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port upgrading problems.... Message-ID: <200307171658.48295.timothyk@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <3F170923.5080502@democrats.com> References: <3F170923.5080502@democrats.com>
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cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 make clean build (same with kde) when you decide to upgrade to the newer version: portupgrade -w XFree886 (the -w is the same as --noclean) It won't rebuild again; it just installs HTH Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Thursday 17 July 2003 04:37 pm, 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? > > Apparently, the ports makefiles are not checking version numbers, but > only the existance of files that seem to be common between versions. > > Jim
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