pkg_info displays 2 versions of Ports, What should I do?

Jean-Baptiste Quenot jb.quenot at caraldi.com
Tue Nov 25 00:34:51 PST 2003


* Rommel B. IKEDA:

> I was reading the  man page on pkg_info and then  I tried testing what
> it can  do...When it  gave me  the output,  it seems  that some  of my
> installed ports has 2 versions...What can  I do with those ports?  Can
> I just pkg_delete or make deinstall  the old versions? Or do I have to
> do something before doing everything? Or just leave them alone?

Install sysutils/portupgrade and  proceed to pkgdb -F  (fix your package
database).  It's an interactive program  that will remove duplicates and
fix stale dependencies.

Cheers,
-- 
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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