Reinstalling a package

[Alejandro Imass]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Chris Stankevitz
<chrisstankevitz at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-June/024394.html
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> In the above post, a FreeBSD GNOME team member recommends "rebuilding and reinstalling sysutils/polkit, sysutils/policykit, and sysutils/consolekit".
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> Q: How do I "rebuild and reinstall" these applications when they were installed originally via "pkg_add -r gnome2"?
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> A: "pkg_add -r polkit" [fails with the message "already installed"]

I have the same problem and asked a while back but got no answer. My
Gnome is partially broken because of a stupid libpng and libjpg
upgrade and I would like to re-install the whole thing from binary.

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> Thank you,
>
> Chris
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