From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 7:19:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC7814D33 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 07:19:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02723; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:17:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:17:53 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: R Joseph Wright , Salvo Bartolotta , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't make certain ports In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Jonathon, On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Brett wrote: > >Nope - as noted above - make deinstall calls pkg_delete which reads off > >its OWN original packing list, not what's in > >/usr/ports/some_dir/some_port/pkg/PLIST. > > What was my mistake here? Referring to the makefile rather than the > packing list as the source for the action taken? No mistake on your part - I didn't read bsd.port.mk (or let it sink through my head enough) - a make deinstall looks for ${PKGNAME} which it grabs from the port Makefile so it will try to deinstall the old version (using pkg_delete). Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message