From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 27 11: 7:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7849837B406 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 75490 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Jun 2001 18:11:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:11:57 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Volker Sturm Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating ports Message-ID: <20010627211157.B75447@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Volker Sturm , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <000001c0ff32$29546ba0$0100a8c0@volker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000001c0ff32$29546ba0$0100a8c0@volker>; from v.sturm@gmx.de on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:54:06PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:54:06PM +0200, Volker Sturm wrote: > Hi, > I upgraded from XFree 4.0.3_3 to 4.1.0_4 after updating the ports tree with > cvsup. When I tried to 'make install' in the XFree86-4 directory it didn't > work and I did a 'make deinstall' which wasn't really successful as it didnt > find all the directories it needed. After that the 'make install' worked. > My general question is: Why does cvsup simply overwrite the packing list of > the old version and thus doesn't let me uninstall the port cleanly? > How is the updating procedure supposed to be done correctly (preferrably for > ALL the ports I installed)? 'make deinstall' is not governed by the port's packing list, but by the information in the package database. It is completely undependent of the ports collection. Thus, the problem is with your previous installation having an incorrect packing list, not with CVSup overwriting the one in the port directory. It's another matter that for a long time, the packing lists of the X ports have, should we say, left something to be desired. I believe that several people have approached this problem lately. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence every third, but it still comprehensible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message