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On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Arthur Barlow wrote:
>
>  Recently I did my usual ports upgrade by using portsnap .  The
>> "pkg_version"
>> program shows that "automake-1.9" and "automake-1.10" and no longer
>> current,
>> but for some reason the message "comparison failed" shows up when I check
>> the ports versions.  I've tried "pkgdb -u" to update the database, but I
>> still get this message each time I run pkg_version.  I've also done the
>> "portsclean -DD" program, but the warning is still there.  How do I clean
>> this up?
>>
>
> "Comparison failed" means you have an installed port that no longer exists
> in the ports tree.  There's no way to compare the installed version to the
> (nonexistent) ports tree version.
>
> It's harmless, but you can use pkg_delete(1) to remove those obsolete
> installed automake ports.
>

That did work.  I assumed that since the package was gone it wouldn't show
up, but it was still in the system.