Reinstalling a package

[Glen Barber]

Hi,

On 7/1/10 5:28 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Chris Stankevitz
> <chrisstankevitz at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-June/024394.html
>>
>> In the above post, a FreeBSD GNOME team member recommends "rebuilding and reinstalling sysutils/polkit, sysutils/policykit, and sysutils/consolekit".
>>
>> Q: How do I "rebuild and reinstall" these applications when they were installed originally via "pkg_add -r gnome2"?
>>
>> 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.
>

If you are going to rebuild libpng and libjpg, you will need to rebuild 
all ports that depend on those libraries, not just the gnome-specific ports.

You might want to have a look at ports-mgmt/portmaster.  Also have a 
look at /usr/ports/UPDATING, entry 20100328 for libpng.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber