Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:06:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Allan <kosmos@vi.dyn.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports want to reinstall perl Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305230513.24994l-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304180341.8194A-100000@kosmos.vi.dyn.ml.org>
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Allan wrote: > When I try to download a port that has Perl as a dependency, the make > process fails to recognize Perl is on the system, so tries to install it. > It fails, because it discovers it's already installed. Then it tells > me to uninstall it, then reinstall. But as it turns out, this fails too. > I have tried twice uninstalling and reinstalling, and installing over the > current installation. No change. The ports system is confused as to the current state of Perl. I would suggest doing the following: cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5 make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER install That should update the checkpoint files and keep all the ports from complaining. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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