port upgrading problems....

[Jim Bryant]

Doing that now...thanks

portupgrade -R XFree86-4.2.0_1,1

Michael Sharp wrote:

>use portupgrade: portupgrade -R 4.3.x
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>>I am having a problem building the upgraded versions of XF86-4 and KDE
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>>The problem is that it sees my XF86-4.2.x files and says that 4.3.x is
>>already installed.
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>>Same for the KDE-3.1.2 upgrade from KDE-3.0.x
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>>How can I force these builds to proceed, while retaining my current
>>versions at least until I'm ready to install the new versions after they
>>are built?
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>>Apparently, the ports makefiles are not checking version numbers, but
>>only the existance of files that seem to be common between versions.
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jim

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