portupgrading lang/gawk fails

[Jerry]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:17:40 +0200
Torfinn <tingox at gmail.com> articulated:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 04/26/10 11:15, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > When trying 'portupgrade -R gawk' I get this:
> >
> > There is a problem with the port that if you do: install gawk ;
> > build gawk ; deinstall gawk ; install gawk it will fail. See
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/146005
> >
> >
> Aha. Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon.
> 
> 
> > Meanwhile you can completely deinstall gawk, then install it again.
> >
> 
> Thanks, that worked out nicely.
> HAND.

You could use portmanager to update the port. It does not suffer
adverse effects. I am not exactly sure why; however, it does work
without any problems. In fact, using it like this:

	portmanager -u -l -y -p

should get all of your ports back in sync quite nicely.


-- 
Jerry
FreeBSD-Ports.user at seibercom.net

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