portupgrade: uninstall error ???
Jonathan Arnold
jdarnold at buddydog.org
Tue Mar 9 09:38:54 PST 2004
> I am seeing many uninstall errors lately when I do a portupgrade
> (particularily with Gnome).
> Of course one can manually
> # make deinstall && make reinstall
> but this is becoming a bit tiresome.
> So I would like to know what is the reason of these errors:
> One should think either a port is out of date and will be updated
> by portupgrade or it isn't, shouldn't one?
Have you done the UPDATING process on portupgrade? If not, you
should read and follow the advice in /usr/ports/UPDATING to
upgarde portupgrade (and ruby).
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Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold at buddydog.org)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/
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