portupgrade: uninstall error ???

[Jonathan Arnold]

> 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:
> One should think either a port is out of date and will be updated
> by portupgrade or it isn't, shouldn't one?

Have you done the UPDATING process on portupgrade? If not, you
should read and follow the advice in /usr/ports/UPDATING to
upgarde portupgrade (and ruby).

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