portupgrade: uninstall error ???

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:16:12AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am seeing many uninstall errors lately when I do a portupgrade
> > (particularily with Gnome).
> > Of course one can manually
> > # make deinstall && make reinstall
> > but this is becoming a bit tiresome.
> > So I would like to know what is the reason of these errors:
>
> It's hard to say since my psychic error message guessing powers aren't
> working well today.  Can you give us a hint? :-)
I understand what you mean, but it is a bit difficult to
describe, since I don't have an idea myself. What I see is
something like this:
After a
# portupgrade -r pkgconfig
I receive

	------------------------------------------------------
** The following packages were not installed or upgraded
(*:skipped / !:failed)
 ! accessibility/gnopernicus (gnopernicus-0.7.5) (uninstall
error)
        ! x11-toolkits/gal2 (gal2-2.1.5)        (uninstall error)
        ! www/gtkhtml3 (gtkhtml3-3.1.8) (uninstall error)
        ! net/gnomemeeting (gnomemeeting-0.98.5_1)      (compiler
error)
        ! accessibility/gok (gok-0.9.8) (uninstall error)
        ! databases/evolution-data-server
(evolution-data-server-0.0.7) (unknown build error)
        ! print/ggv2 (ggv2-2.5.4)       (uninstall error)
        ! x11/gdm2 (gdm2-2.5.90.1)      (uninstall error)
        * x11/gnomepanel (gnomepanel-2.5.90)
        ! deskutils/gucharmap (gucharmap-gnome-1.3.0)
(uninstall error)
        ! www/epiphany (epiphany-1.1.10)        (uninstall error)
        * graphics/gimp-devel (gimp-gnome-2.0.pre3_1,1)
        * net/gnomeicu2 (gnomeicu2-0.99_1)
        * x11/gnomeapplets2 (gnomeapplets2-2.5.6)


and so on ...

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the uninstall errors can mostly be fixed manually by
# make deinstall && make reinstall
since a complete ../work directory has been built but hasn't been
installed because of an existing version.
After this manual procedure most skipped ports will build and
install well.
I also tried a
# pkgdb -fu
in case something is wrong with my package database, but that
doesn't help either.

Uli.



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