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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:24:47 +0100 (CET)
From:      520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa)
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.8-PRERELEASE: portinstall -R XFree86 fails
Message-ID:  <20030221172302.H254@small.pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030221090832.GC4221@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
References:  <20030221064826.R254@small.pukruppa.de> <20030221090832.GC4221@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:58:49AM +0100, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to portinstall XFree86-4 on yesterday's
> > 4.8-PRERELEASE.
> >
> > I think I have deleted all old XFree86 packages,
> > # pkgdb -F
> > runs without any complaints.

>
> The imake port is part of XFree86, and you have to install the version
> that corresponds to which ever version of XFree86 you're installing.
> This is infact one of the principal reasons why you're advised to
> delete the XFree86-3 packages before attempting to upgrade to
> XFree86-4.
>
> The fix is simple.  Just run:
>
>     # pkg_deinstall -f imake-\*
>
> before running your portinstall command again.
No, sorry.

That doesn't help.

Uli.

>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
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