port upgrading problems....
Tim Kellers
timothyk at wallnet.com
Thu Jul 17 13:59:00 PDT 2003
cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86
make clean build
(same with kde)
when you decide to upgrade to the newer version:
portupgrade -w XFree886
(the -w is the same as --noclean)
It won't rebuild again; it just installs
HTH
Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT
On Thursday 17 July 2003 04:37 pm, Jim Bryant wrote:
> I am having a problem building the upgraded versions of XF86-4 and KDE
>
> The problem is that it sees my XF86-4.2.x files and says that 4.3.x is
> already installed.
>
> Same for the KDE-3.1.2 upgrade from KDE-3.0.x
>
> How can I force these builds to proceed, while retaining my current
> versions at least until I'm ready to install the new versions after they
> are built?
>
> Apparently, the ports makefiles are not checking version numbers, but
> only the existance of files that seem to be common between versions.
>
> Jim
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