pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

[Tim Kellers]

If you vi /usr/ports/UPDATING and search for fearless, it comes right up:

20070519:
  AFFECTS: users of Xorg
  AUTHOR: kris at FreeBSD.org

  Welcome, fearless user!  You are about to embark upon a mystical
  journey to the world of xorg 7.2.


Eric Crist wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
>> Mon Si wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>> I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the xorg-driver
>>> port. The old version of the port can't be uninstalled during the
>>> portupgrade due to an undefined prefix.
>>> The port can't be deleted by "pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3"
>>> Does anybody know how to upgrade / remove this port?
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>     Simon
>>
>> If nothing else works, you could try
>> rm -rf /var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3
>
> If I remember correctly, there are detailed instructions in 
> /usr/ports/UPDATING -- go back to notes for sometime in May of 2007, 
> and there's a really long entry on upgraded to Xorg 7.x from 6.9.  I 
> think the entry specifically mentions 7.2, but it should work for 7.3 
> as well.
>
> HTH
> -----
> Eric F Crist
> Secure Computing Networks
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