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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:33:36 -0400
From:      jason <jason@ec.rr.com>
To:        Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade/ports question
Message-ID:  <411C1A70.2090703@ec.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <AC6E1D40-EC7A-11D8-B526-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com>
References:  <AC6E1D40-EC7A-11D8-B526-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com>

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Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Situation:
> I set up a portal server as per the instructions at their site; it 
> involved installing some PERL modules from CPAN, which I have since 
> learned on FreeBSD appears to be a no no...
>
> Now I have some updates to do, but I don't want it to interfere with 
> the web portal software.  In theory, the updates should just replace 
> the CPAN stuff where they overlap, no?  When I do some updates on 
> software (like ClamAV) that apparently *uses* some of these modules, I 
> get the error:
> pkg_delete: package bsdpan-MIME-tools-5.411 has no origin recorded
> pkg_delete: package bsdpan-MailTools-1.62 has no origin recorded
> pkg_delete: package bsdpan-MIME-tools-5.411 has no origin recorded
> pkg_delete: package bsdpan-MailTools-1.62 has no origin recorded
>
> but these errors aren't enough to keep it from completing the update 
> on the software in question. Portversion is yielding:
>
> # portversion | grep -v "="
> apache                      <
> bsdpan-Archive-Zip          <
> bsdpan-DBD-mysql            <
> bsdpan-DBI                  <
> bsdpan-IO-stringy           >
> bsdpan-Lingua-EN-NameParse  >
> bsdpan-MIME-tools           #
> bsdpan-Mail-POP3Client      >
> bsdpan-MailTools            #
> bsdpan-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel  >
> bsdpan-Test-Manifest        <
> bsdpan-URI                  <
> bsdpan-Unicode-String       <
> bsdpan-XML-RSS              <
> bsdpan-perl-ldap            <
> expat                       <
> ezm3                        <
> libiconv                    <
> m4                          <
> openssl                     <
> p5-libwww                   <
> perl                        <
> rc_subr                     <
> rsync                       <
> ruby                        <
>
>
> Meaning some PAN modules are of *higher* versions than available 
> through ports?  How?
>
> Can I safely try upgrading those modules?  Has anyone run into 
> something like this before?
>
> -Bart
>
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I would remove everything not from ports.  Update ports.  You can them 
run portupdrage -af.  This will force an upgrade or reinstall of all 
installed ports(depending on if it has been updated or not is if it is 
just reinstalled or upgraded).



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