Removing a port without upsetting dependencies

[Kent Stewart]

On Sunday 11 December 2005 06:10 pm, RW wrote:
> On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:46, Ian Moore wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the
> > mplayer-skins port as well. Then I got sick of dealing with the
> > skins port being broken a lot because the source files are often
> > unfetchable, so I removed the port (I can't remember what method I
> > used to do that now).
>
> A much better solution is to:
>
>  cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins && make config
>
> then deselect everything, but the default skin.
>
> Since I did that I haven't had any problem with unfetchable skins.
>

If you go into distfiles/mplayer and rm all of the files that are out of 
date, you won't have any problem either. IIRC, the names haven't 
changed but the MD5 and sizes have and it won't refetch them until you 
remove them. The skins aren't broken. There is something slightly out 
of whack with the Makefile.

There may be an easier way but cd and rm * works just fine.

Kent

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