From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 10: 5:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511AC15256 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:04:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@nojunk.com) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp31-pa4.neomedia.it [195.103.207.223]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA11033 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:04:18 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:06:04 GMT Message-ID: <20000118.18060400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: can't make certain ports To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: X-Mailer: Supercalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 1/18/00, 4:17:53 PM, Brett Taylor wrote regarding Re: can't make certain ports: > Hi Jonathon, > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Brett wrote: > > >Nope - as noted above - make deinstall calls pkg_delete which reads= off > > >its OWN original packing list, not what's in > > >/usr/ports/some_dir/some_port/pkg/PLIST. > > > > What was my mistake here? Referring to the makefile rather than the= > > packing list as the source for the action taken? > No mistake on your part - I didn't read bsd.port.mk (or let it sink > through my head enough) - a make deinstall looks for ${PKGNAME} which it > grabs from the port Makefile so it will try to deinstall the old version > (using pkg_delete). > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** Dear Brett Taylor and Jonathon McKitrick, just to split hairs: make deinstall ~ pkg_delete -f port_package(s)_listed_in_the_PLIST where " ~ " reads "equivalent to". In a freshly updated port, the package(s) in question is(are) the=20 *new* package(s) - not yet made. If all this is correct, it should (?) go into the docs. AFAIR, I have=20 not found this little piece of information (yet). But I have an awful lot to read, so I might be wrong.=20 I know I do NOT know (Socrates) :-)) Perhaps it is also in Grog's Guide 3rd edition ? I haven't found this book in Sicily yet.=20 Best regards, Salvo _ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message