Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:34:42 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster wants to reinstall OpenOffice Message-ID: <47F0DA62.9050204@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47F0B8F3.9050204@bsdforen.de> References: <47F09727.5020105@bsdforen.de> <47F0B066.508@FreeBSD.org> <47F0B8F3.9050204@bsdforen.de>
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Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>> Yesterday I updated OpenOffice and now whenever I run portmaster -Da
>>> it reinstalls it for no reason I can see.
>>
>> Well it doesn't decide to do things for no reason. :) Somehow it
>> believes that there is a newer version. What does 'portmaster -L' say?
>> (Just the part about openoffice)
>>
>> Doug
>
> Apparently my /var/db/pkg had broken entries after I created a couple of
> packages. Languages that were no longer installed, were still registered.
Yeah, that'd do it. You might try looking at the output of 'portmaster
-l' and pick a leaf port that you know you want to delete, and use the
expunge option (portmaster -e). This will run the -s option to delete
anything else that it can detect is stale for you. Take a look at the
man page for more information.
Good luck,
Doug
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