Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:38:18 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-ports] autoconf install not playing well? (more info) Message-ID: <4772D7DA.6080804@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200712262230.lBQMUXkx087154@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> References: <200712262230.lBQMUXkx087154@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
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Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm going through upgrading 1/2 a zillion ports on >> a machine, and while I was doing it all of a sudden I got >> notification the server was not responding. It seems >> /usr/local/bin/perl no longer existed. I went and checked >> my /usr/local/bin and only found : >> >> asgard# ls >> autoconf-2.53 autom4te-2.53 autoscan-2.53 ifnames-2.53 >> autoheader-2.53 autoreconf-2.53 autoupdate-2.53 >> >> >> The other thing I noticed is that there were 3 >> other directories that seemed ONLY to have autoconf stuff: >> >> info, man, share >> >> It seems it took my soft links that I used for all >> those directories, deleted them, created new directories, >> and installed the software. >> >> Can anyone verify this? If so, WHY? Why would it >> care? I'll spend the time re-copying all the files over >> where they belong and continue on my upgrade... >> >> Thanks, Tuc >> >> [...] > How do I tell the system to consider that I don't > have 2.53 anymore, just delete /var/db/pkg/autoconf-2.53_4 ? > (I also have autoconf-2.59_3, how to do the same for that?) > > Thanks, Tuc pkg_delete(1) would be a far more elegant solution to that question. -Garrett
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