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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:13:12 +0100
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
Cc:        Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnome <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Failure building x11-fonts/fontconfig [LONG] - now shortened
Message-ID:  <20030306131312.GC211@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1046956191.626.5.camel@ds9.webonaut.com>
References:  <41686EB8-4FCA-11D7-A623-000393496BE8@lassitu.de> <1046953533.651.89.camel@ds9.webonaut.com> <20030306130125.GB211@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <1046956191.626.5.camel@ds9.webonaut.com>

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:09:51PM +0100, Franz Klammer wrote:
> Am Do, 2003-03-06 um 14.01 schrieb Stijn Hoop:
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:25:34PM +0100, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > > also i've seen that you have many ports up to in triplicate
> > > and more (docbook even 6x). which can cause many problems.
> > >=20
> > > you have portupgrade installed. did this happens while updateing
> > > with portupgrade? i've avoid this with setting
> > >=20
> > >     sanity_checks =3D false
> > >=20
> > > in usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
> > >=20
> > > it's maybe not the perfect solution, but since i've=20
> > > (as good as) never problems with double installations.
> >=20
> > The right solution would be to remove the duplicate directories from
> > /var/db/pkg. Running pkgdb -F should let you do this.
> > It asks something along the lines of 'duplicate origin, unregister
> > any of them? [y/n]'. You should unregister all but the one with the
> > highest numbers.
>=20
> are you sure? if i have this problem i prefer to do a
> pkg_deinstall -f portname\* and the reinstall the
> latest one.

I'm pretty sure. Your solution will also work. If you run pkgdb -F
after you've deinstalled everything and reinstalled the port, you
can even let pkgdb restore the +REQUIRED_BY files. It will say

stale dependency foo-1.0 -> bar-0.9. Correct? [y/n] y
bar-1.0? [y/n] y
Corrected.

(note that this is paraphrased, not copy & paste output but you get the ide=
a).

--Stijn

--=20
In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in
the proper order then why can't he?

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