Portupgrade Update

Bob Perry rperry4 at earthlink.net
Sun May 18 18:10:48 PDT 2003


E. J. Cerejo wrote:

> It take a little bit more to upgrade your installed ports than just 
> use portupgrade! Most probably you started using portupgrade without 
> doing pkgdb -F first and portsdb -Uu.

Thought I ran both.

> You should uninstall every port that has double versions installed, 
> uninstall both of them and then follow the instructions on this site 
> to upgrade and reinstall the ports:

This solved the problem. When I think back, I remember running pkgdb -F 
and answering "yes" to a question about registering the older version of 
imake. That may have been a bad thing.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Bob



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