Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:15:43 +0100 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Annoying ports problem Message-ID: <200502181015.44103.karelj@kayjay.nl> In-Reply-To: <42159B2C.3000000@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <421467C0.9060801@ant.uni-bremen.de> <d9175cad05021715128228c00@mail.gmail.com> <42159B2C.3000000@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Friday 18 February 2005 08:37, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:45:36 +0100, Heinrich Rebehn > > > > <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote: > >>Hi list, > >> > >>I have run into an annoying problem several times when upgrading ports. > >> > >>Say, if i want to upgrade gstreamer-plugins, i do: > >> > >># cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins > >># make > >> > >>This pulls in some dependencies, for example gnomevfs2. gnnomevfs2 will > >>compile fine, but then stops because it wants to install gnomevfs2 > >>instead of reinstalling it: > >> > >>===> An older version of devel/gnomevfs2 is already installed > >>(gnomevfs2-2.9.91) > >> You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again > >> by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. > >> If you really wish to overwrite the old port of devel/gnomevfs2 > >> without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" > >> in your environment or the "make install" command line. > >>*** Error code 1 > >> > >>Since i have run into this several times, i must be missing something > >>substantial. What is it? > > > > Just "make" will make the program and try to install it as if it were > > the first time. When it detects the older version, it will want you > > to do "make deinstall && make reinstall". For upgrading ports, you > > may want to look at /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade. > The problem is that the OP *is* using portupgrade. > It makes no difference wether i use "make" or "portupgrade". As soon as > ether of them decide that another package that the make candidate > depends on, has to be upgraded, the error occurs with that package. And if you do 'portupgrade -f gnomevfs2' (forced upgrade) *before* 'portupgrade gstreamer-plugins'? It recently solved similar problems for me, in particular with the perl-related ports. Karel.
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