ports/62857: portinstall / portupgrade -N doesn't do a prior upgrade of required ports

[Jochen Gensch]

>Number:         62857
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       portinstall / portupgrade -N doesn't do a prior upgrade of required ports
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 14 15:30:16 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jochen Gensch
>Release:        4.8
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD jail-1 4.8-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p15 #0: Sat Feb  7 13:59:13 CET 2004     status at test.da-butze.uga:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386  
>Description:
Sometimes a portinstall fails because a dependent ports is too old. However according to the man page all dependent ports / packages should 
be updatet prior the installations. This doesn't seem to happen.
I recently tried to install Inn 2.4.1, which failed with the follwing
output:

===>  Installing for gettext-0.13.1
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>  Checking if devel/gettext already installed
===>   An older version of devel/gettext is already installed (gettext-0.11.5_1)
      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/gettext
      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/gettext.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/news/inn.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portinstall481.0 make -DWITH_TAGGED_HASH
** Fix the problem and try again.
** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed)
        ! news/inn      (unknown build error)



>How-To-Repeat:
Just do some installation. It occurs sometimes.
>Fix:
Do what the man page says or explain to me what I'm missing :-)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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