From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 3 11:43:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE7F16A420 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:43:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61C843D45 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:43:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i20so688043wra for ; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.104.8 with SMTP id b8mr2951038wrc; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? ( [216.45.217.148]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 26sm4337274wrl.2006.06.03.04.43.56; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:43:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:44:04 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom In-Reply-To: <1149328618.704.13.camel@localhost.savola.com> References: <1149328618.704.13.camel@localhost.savola.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060603073403.5447.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.25 [en] Subject: Re: portmanager keeps on reinstalling the same port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:43:58 -0000 Yousef Raffah wrote: > excuse the n00b in me but I'm trying to install a port using portmanager > as installing it the traditional (make install clean) way failed and the > one of the cool guys on the list here suggested to use portmanager to > resolve the problem. > > I have synced my ports as of today morning and tried to launch: > # portmanager deskutils/taskjuggler -l -f > > the thing is, portmanager kicks out and tries to reinstall lang/perl5.8, > although it had reinstalled it earlier and I'm sure I have perl 5.8.8 > installed already!. I'm not sure if this is a normal behaviour of > portmanager? But I will keep on monitoring it and see if it all goes > well > > You are telling 'portmanager' to rebuild your entire system when you use the '-f' switch. To install just this one port, run the program like this: portmanager deskutils/taskjuggler -l -y If you have 'portupgrade' installed, you might want to run 'portsclean': portsclean -C -L first to make sure that you have cleaned out any old work before starting a new installation. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net