portmaster wants to reinstall OpenOffice

Dominic Fandrey kamikaze at bsdforen.de
Mon Mar 31 03:12:06 PDT 2008


Doug Barton wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> Yesterday I updated OpenOffice and now whenever I run portmaster -Da 
>> it reinstalls it for no reason I can see.
> 
> Well it doesn't decide to do things for no reason. :) Somehow it 
> believes that there is a newer version. What does 'portmaster -L' say? 
> (Just the part about openoffice)
> 
> Doug

Apparently my /var/db/pkg had broken entries after I created a couple of 
packages. Languages that were no longer installed, were still registered.



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