From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 14:44:14 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 714AA37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net (pimout4-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B3C43F75 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:44:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbryant@democrats.com) Received: from democrats.com (ppp-66-139-129-59.dialup.eulstx.swbell.net [66.139.129.59])h6HLiAJV142516; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:44:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1718A6.7060102@democrats.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:44:06 -0500 From: Jim Bryant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Sharp References: <3F170923.5080502@democrats.com> <3490.192.168.1.4.1058474516.squirrel@probsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-ports Subject: Re: port upgrading problems.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jbryant@democrats.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:44:14 -0000 Doing that now...thanks portupgrade -R XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 Michael Sharp wrote: >use portupgrade: portupgrade -R 4.3.x > > > > >>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 -- "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom..." -- Benito Mussilini, 1932 http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/patriot2-hi.pdf -- The GOP agrees