Moved ports - what to do?

Beech Rintoul beech at alaskaparadise.com
Sun May 28 13:39:48 PDT 2006


On Sunday 28 May 2006 12:20, Lars Stokholm wrote:
> What is one supposed to do when ports are moved?
>
> gnomemimedata, e.g., has just been moved/renamed to gnome-mime-data (as
> described in /usr/ports/MOVED). I've run pkgdb -Fu, which detected the
> move, but the package is still called by its old name, in the output of
> pkg_info (i.e. gnomemimedata).
>
> I would have expected the installed package to be renamed to
> gnome-mime-data. Am I supposed to force a deinstallation of the old
> package and install the new one manually?

portupgrade -f if you want to correct it now, otherwise it will take care of 
itself next upgrade.

Beech
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