From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 19:09:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968B6106564A for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:09:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp204.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp204.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9DF8FC16 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp40.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id D4DD13506F2; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:09:15 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp40.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 34F1B350350; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:09:14 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.1.0.101012 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:09:11 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: Ed Flecko Message-ID: Thread-Topic: "portmaster -a" command fails - *** Error code 1 In-Reply-To: <4D71316C.9040505@qeng-ho.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: "portmaster -a" command fails - *** Error code 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:09:16 -0000 these situations arise quite often where you have to delete a port before portmaster will continue. sometimes you can predict it by reading /usr/ports/UPDATING not that this is the only reason to read UPDATING. On 3/4/11 1:37 PM, "Arthur Chance" wrote: >On 03/04/11 17:36, Ed Flecko wrote: >> Thanks Aurthur. >> >> :-) >> >> It's funny...I DID what it asks and it still didn't work (make >>deinstall, etc.). > >A tip for the future: always say what you've tried. It lets us save our >waning mind reading powers for important cases, like working out what >the wife actually wants for her birthday when all she says is "oh, any >little thing will do". :-) > >> Apparently, I installed it from a package, so I did a pkg_delete >> automake and then started my portmaster -a again and it seems to be >> running fine. > >Ah, the third option which I forgot to mention. It's always the option >one forgets to mention that works. > >In theory package install and port install are supposed to be the same >(modulo config options). In practice there are odd cases, and automake >seems to provoke them. Thinking back, I've had to pkg_delete it before >now in order to upgrade, and I always install from ports. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"