From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 12:05:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703FA16A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA70A43FCB for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h7SJ5AxE094455; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:05:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:05:10 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Adam McLaurin Message-ID: <20030828190510.GA29750@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1062086767.35417.6.camel@farmer.lc.ca.gov> <1062097184.57902.61.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1062097184.57902.61.camel@jake> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Installed Are Newer Than Tree? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:05:11 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 28), Adam McLaurin said: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:35, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > It seems that the ports I have installed on my system are newer than the > > ones in the ports tree. If I run portversion, I get output that looks > > like this: > > > > farmer# portversion -v -L= > > XFree86-Server-4.3.0_6 > succeeds port (port has 4.3.0_5) > > cdrtools-2.0_1 > succeeds port (port has 2.0) > > gconf-1.0.9_3 > succeeds port (port has 1.0.9_2) > > gdm2-2.4.1.4 > succeeds port (port has 2.4.1.3_1) > > gnomegames2-2.2.1_1 > succeeds port (port has 2.2.1) > > > > And the list goes on. I've updated my ports tree using cvsup and it > > finishes successfully. I've also run portsdb -uU to update the indexes > > however the problem persists. > > > > I'm stumped and don't know what else to check. Any ideas? I'm running > > 4.8. > > Double-check that you only have one copy of these ports installed. I've > seen this problem before, only to discover multiple copies of the same > port were installed. Some 'pkgdb -F' might be in order here .. > > Also, I'd recommend 'make index' from /usr/ports instead of using > 'portsdb -U'. Much more reliable! I just use pkg_version -vL=, which doesn't use the index, but can get slow if you have hundreds of ports installed. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com