port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

[paul beard]

On Mar 31, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Charles Swiger wrote:

> Stop using portupgrade for a moment; do a "make deinstall" of the 
> expat port (or use "pkg_delete -f"), do a "make clean", and then do a 
> "make reinstall".
>

been there, done that, got the bloody knuckles to show for it.

[/usr/ports/textproc/expat2]# pkg_info -g /var/db/pkg/expat-1.95.7/
Information for expat-1.95.7:

Mismatched Checksums:
pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so doesn't exist

pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.5 doesn't exist

I think something's broken.

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Paul Beard
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