Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:14:31 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: Incoming Mail List <mailist@whoweb.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports installation issue Message-ID: <199612292314.RAA18935@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Incoming Mail List <mailist@whoweb.com> of "Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:53:57 EST." <199612292053.PAA16252@whoweb.com>
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> > I want to reinstall some ports collections but am running into the following > error message: > > Package `xfmail-0.3b' already recorded as installed. > > I tried the '-f' flag but this didn't help. How can I convince my systems that > it's ok to reinstall this package? The brute-force method is to remove /var/db/pkg/xfmail-03b by hand. Before you do that, work thru the /var/db/pkg/xfmail-03b/+CONTENTS file and manually remove whatever installed files are listed. Also suggest you read the Makefile for xfmail and go to its home site and pick up a newer version to use. Don't think there is a port available, yet. But the original development of XFmail is under FreeBSD so you'll have little trouble building the current version. Um, you'll need the current xforms library... -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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