newbie ports question

Andrew P. infofarmer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 11:08:34 PDT 2005


On 10/13/05, makisupa <bsd.makisupa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I seem to be getting myself in trouble repeatedly...I'm sure someone can
> help...
>
> Fresh install of 6.0 RC1, gnome 2.12 from marcus's tb, freshly cvsupped
> ports.  I need to install some little apps like gaim and pan.  when
> running 'make install clean' for these ports i'll get a message that the
> correct version of port X is not installed.  Problem is make says i need
> a newer version but the version numbers indicate i've got a newer
> version than what its looking for.  Then a little part about
> 'FORCE_PACKAGE_REGISTER.'  There is an example of this below this
> message.  If i use this it will install the older version of the
> dependencies or at least register them.  I say this on the last system
> that i hosed...2 copies of the same package would be registered.  Not
> good. How should i *properly* install these ports?  As in what's not
> going to get me in trouble?
>
>
> ===>  Installing for glib-2.6.6
> ===>   glib-2.6.6 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found
> ===>   glib-2.6.6 depends on executable: pkg-config - found
> ===>   glib-2.6.6 depends on shared library: intl - found
> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> ===>  Checking if devel/glib20 already installed
> ===>   An older version of devel/glib20 is already installed
> (glib-2.8.3)
>       You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
>       by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
>       If you really wish to overwrite the old port of devel/glib20
>       without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
>       in your environment or the "make install" command line.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/glib20.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/gtkspell2.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/net/gaim.
>
>
> Thanks for the help.  Loving my BSD laptop so far...just straightening
> some things out.
>
> /mak.
>
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I'd start with installing portupgrade, and trying to
portupgrade -arR. I'm sure there's another solution,
though.


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