Simultaneously two versions of one port?

[Thomas Beer]

> either, 'cd'  to the port that is causing the problem, devel/py-orbit2, in
> this case and type 'make deinstall', than go back to your original port and
> issue a make again

What's with existing dependencies?

> 
> or, 'cd' to the port that is causing the problem, devel/py-orbit2, in this
> case and type 'make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install clean'. This forces an
> upgrade of the troublesome port, but may result in a double registered port.
> This can be checked by issuing 'pkgdb -F'
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Pascal
> 
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:17:29 +0200, Thomas Beer wrote
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I'm trying to install gdesklets which depends on
> > py24-orbit. However, py23-orbit is already
> > installed. I googled and tryed various ways
> > with portupgrade et al. What to do?
> >
> > Thanks Tom
> >
> > [root at lap gdesklets]# make install
> > ===>   gdesklets-0.34.3 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python - found
> >
> > <---snip--->
> >
> > ===>  Installing for py24-orbit-2.0.1_1
> > ===>   py24-orbit-2.0.1_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python2.4 - found
> > ===>   py24-orbit-2.0.1_1 depends on executable: pkg-config - found
> > ===>   py24-orbit-2.0.1_1 depends on shared library: glib-2.0.600 - found
> > ===>   py24-orbit-2.0.1_1 depends on shared library: IDL-2.0 - found
> > ===>   py24-orbit-2.0.1_1 depends on shared library: ORBit-2.0 - found
> > ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> > ===>  Checking if devel/py-orbit2 already installed
> > ===>   An older version of devel/py-orbit2 is already installed
> > (py23-orbit-2.0.1_1)
> >      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/py-orbit2
> >      without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
> >      in your environment or the "make install" command line.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/py-orbit2.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-gnome2.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/deskutils/gdesklets.
> >
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