Issues when updating ports

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:52:47 -0800, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:

> I was doing the massive port upgrade for post libkse as libpthread. The
> reinstall of gtk failed because of a file installed by gucharmap-gnome,
> so I deleted the gucharmap-gnome package and installed gtk. So far, so
> good.
>
> Then I tried to re-install gucharmap-gnome. (portupgrade -RN 
> gucharmap-gnome)
> The attempt to re-install failed for docbook-xsl with the error:
> pkg_delete: '/usr/local/share/xsl/docbook/catalog' fails original MD5

<snip>

> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> for file in `unzip -l 
> /usr/ports/distfiles/docbook-xml-4.2.zip|/usr/bin/awk 
> '/:[0-9].*[^\/]$/{print $4}'`; do  install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 
> /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-xml/work/$file 
> /usr/local/share/xml/docbook/4.2/$file;  done
> xmlcatmgr: entry already exists for 
> `/usr/local/share/xml/docbook/4.2/docbook.cat' of type `CATALOG'
> *** Error code 1
>
> I will admit to general cluelessness about xmlcatmgr, so I am unsure how
> to best proceed. Any suggestions?

I get that too in the few days ago, so I just solve the problem by remove 
the `/usr/local/share/xml/docbook/4.2/docbook.cat' by manual, then force 
install it. It works to me so far.

Cheers,
Mezz

> I still have hope of getting Gnome running on my laptop today!
>
> Thanks,


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