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Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:45:36 +0100
From:      Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Annoying ports problem
Message-ID:  <421467C0.9060801@ant.uni-bremen.de>

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Hi list,

I have run into an annoying problem several times when upgrading ports.

Say, if i want to upgrade gstreamer-plugins, i do:

# cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins
# make

This pulls in some dependencies, for example gnomevfs2. gnnomevfs2 will 
compile fine, but then stops because it wants to install gnomevfs2 
instead of reinstalling it:

===>   An older version of devel/gnomevfs2 is already installed 
(gnomevfs2-2.9.91)
       You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
       by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
       If you really wish to overwrite the old port of devel/gnomevfs2
       without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
       in your environment or the "make install" command line.
*** Error code 1

Since i have run into this several times, i must be missing something 
substantial. What is it?

Regards,
-- 

Heinrich Rebehn

University of Bremen
Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Department of Telecommunications -

Phone : +49/421/218-4664
Fax   :            -3341



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