Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:51:07 -0600 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade a port Message-ID: <39FCA9DA.FA9418C7@confusion.net> References: <39FCA42D.5462149D@confusion.net> <20001030003505.C500@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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growing impatient with myself, I just did a
pkg_info|grep 1.94 |awk '{print $1}'|xargs pkg_delete
That worked, and now kde2 is happily building away
Peter Pentchev wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 04:26:53PM -0600, Laurence Berland wrote:
> > I'm trying to upgrade KDE2 from a pre- to the current version. I had
> > previously installed using the metaport, so I go to /usr/ports/x11/kde2
> > and type 'make deinstall.' Now I go 'make' but nothing happens
> >
> > dhcp089221# make
> > dhcp089221#
>
> Yup, 'make' does nothing, because it sees that you've already built
> something. You need to 'make clean' to clean up everything left over
> from your previous build.
>
> >
> > make reinstall just reinstalls the same stuff again, by just finding
> > that all the things it depends on have been installed, and then
> > reregistering itself
>
> 'make reinstall' depends on what the 'make all' (a.k.a. 'make build')
> thinks on what needs to be remade - in your case, nothing.
> >
> > dhcp089221# make reinstall
> [snip]
> >
> > Any ideas on the cleanest way to deal with all this and upgrade kde2
> > from sources?
>
> Yup, do a 'make clean' and then 'make' (synonymous to 'make all').
> You can do both with a single command - 'make clean all'
>
> You may even try 'make deinstall clean all reinstall' :)
>
> HTH.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
> --
> Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
--
Laurence Berland
Intern, Flooz.com
Northwestern '04
stuyman@confusion.net
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