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Date:      Tue, 14 May 2002 11:57:33 +0100
From:      Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
To:        Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net>
Cc:        Mattias =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rk?= <thrawn@linux.nu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports problems when typing make in a ports dir. ( Any )
Message-ID:  <20020514105733.GA2772@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020514122555.M26105-100000@hq1.tyfon.net>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.43L0.0205141216440.8878-100000@thrawn.birch.se> <20020514122555.M26105-100000@hq1.tyfon.net>

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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:41:18PM +0200, Dan Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, [iso8859-1] Mattias Bjrk wrote:
> 
> | On Mon, 13 May 2002, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> |
> | >   On May 13 at 13:40, Mattias Bjrk spoke:
> | >
> | > > mount /usr/ports ( over NFS )
> | > > cd /usr/ports/mail/qmail
> | > > make
> | > >
> | > > '===> qmail-1.03-1 : Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You
> | > > need a fresh make world or an upgrade kit. Please go to
> | > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ or a mirror site and follow the
> | > > instructions.
> | > >
> | > > I don't understand what is going on here! As you can see I have upgraded
> | > > my system to stable. But I can't figure out whats the catch is here, could
> | > > somebody please give me a hand here?
> | >
> | > You have upgraded the base system.
> | > Make shure the clocks of your client and your NFS-server are in
> | > sync.
> | > You probably need to upgrade the ports database as well (cvsup).
> |
> | Hmm I did compile my kernel, and I did get a new date, but It still prints
> | the same error message. And I did a find / -name "*" | xargs touch -f so
> | that I get a new date on all my files on that computer. But It still
> | doesn't help, Any clues ?
> 
> The error message comes from the file "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk" around
> line 1823. ${BSDPORTMKVERSION} must not be greater than ${SYSTEMVERSION}.
> 
> You can verify this:
> 
>   cd /usr/ports/mail/qmail && make -V BSDPORTMKVERSION ; make -V SYSTEMVERSION
> 
> The value of SYSTEMVERSION is set from the file "/var/db/port.mkversion"
> which is updated when you do a "make world".
> 
> Hope this helps :-)

As a thought, after he built his system did he run mergemaster? If not
then the config files will still be at the old versions.

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org

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