From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 15:14:46 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA16661 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:14:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.HiWAAY.net (max2-185.HiWAAY.net [208.147.145.185]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA16654 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:14:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.HiWAAY.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexgen.HiWAAY.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA18935; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:14:32 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199612292314.RAA18935@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Incoming Mail List cc: questions@freebsd.org From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: ports installation issue In-reply-to: Message from Incoming Mail List of "Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:53:57 EST." <199612292053.PAA16252@whoweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:14:31 -0600 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I want to reinstall some ports collections but am running into the following > error message: > > Package `xfmail-0.3b' already recorded as installed. > > I tried the '-f' flag but this didn't help. How can I convince my systems that > it's ok to reinstall this package? The brute-force method is to remove /var/db/pkg/xfmail-03b by hand. Before you do that, work thru the /var/db/pkg/xfmail-03b/+CONTENTS file and manually remove whatever installed files are listed. Also suggest you read the Makefile for xfmail and go to its home site and pick up a newer version to use. Don't think there is a port available, yet. But the original development of XFmail is under FreeBSD so you'll have little trouble building the current version. Um, you'll need the current xforms library... -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.