From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 15 13: 2:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.dynamic-cast.com (r175-5-dsl.sea.lightrealm.net [216.122.5.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CCB637B446 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Received: from chillipepper (chillipepper.dynamic-cast.com [192.168.1.1]) by matrix.dynamic-cast.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3FK2ks25519 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Message-ID: <001d01c0c5e7$178df370$0101a8c0@chillipepper> From: "Hervey Wilson" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Ports deinstall / reinstall Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:03:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I sync the ports collection regularly and endeavour to keep my system up to date. When packages are reported as out of date, I try to reinstall them, with this sequence: /usr/ports/XXXX: make deinstall /usr/ports/XXXX: make reinstall However, "make deinstall" invariably seems to report that the package is not found since it's looking for the new version, not the one I have installed. I therefore find myself reinstalling the new version and thinking about deleting the old versions entries from /var/db/pkgs. This doesn't feel quite right, can someone help me refine my process ? Thanks in advance, H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message