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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:39:58 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: "make install" failing when installing dependent ports
Message-ID:  <39535A9E.330029BB@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <14674.58984.642238.438042@guru.mired.org>

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Mike Meyer wrote:

> I've been installing a fair number of ports from scratch on a
> 5.0-current system. I've noticed that if a port is installed, some
> ports trying to load dependencies will fail with a "it's already
> installed" error when it tries to install the dependency.
>
> This is annoying, and wasn't happening previously. Has there been any
> discussion of this issue?

Use "make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install" instead, or just add
FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes into /etc/make.conf.

-Maxim



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