Annoying ports problem

[Davide Lemma]

you're in the wrong way... to update all your ports you must use portupgrade 
from ports, but if you are sure what u'r doing simply add 
FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes in your /etc/make.conf but after time you could have 
some trouble in your PKGDB

bye Davide

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heinrich Rebehn" <rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: Annoying ports problem


> 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?
>
> Regards,
> -- 
>
> Heinrich Rebehn
>
> University of Bremen
> Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
> - Department of Telecommunications -
>
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