Odds are you're doing a make deinstall/reinstall in the wrong place. You
do that to the dependency that fails, not the port you're upgrading.
The best way to handle this is to make sure that your ports tree is
current using cvsup, and if it's not already installed, install
sysutils/port-maintenance-tools.
Then do:
portupgrade editors/vim
That will take care of issues like this for you. To get a good picture of
your scenario:
portmanager -s.
If you read back through the archives for this list, there are also sorts
of good examples and practices for keep your ports and sources current and
making upgrades relatively painless. :)
Tony
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Joey Mingrone wrote:
Hi,
I have a box running 4.8. I only have ssh access so I can't update the OS
at the moment, but I would like to update certain ports. I'm running into
a few problems. The worst is when I update a port it tries to update /
install dependencies that are already up to date. For example, when I try
to update vim, it tries to install gmake-3.80_2, which is already
installed. The build/install ends with the following error message:
===> Installing for gmake-3.80_2
===> Generating temporary packing list
===> Checking if devel/gmake already installed
===> gmake-3.80_2 is already installed
You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
If you really wish to overwrite the old port of devel/gmake
without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
in your environment or the "make install" command line.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pkgconfig.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/editors/vim.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script
-qa /tmp/portupgrade34605.0 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
! editors/vim (vim-6.3.16) (unknown build error)
---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
I did try the make deinstall / reinstall but with the same results. If I
unistall gmake (and other dependencies) then just build vim, it will work,
but deinstalling dependencies before every update is a little cumbersome.
A second and possibly related problem is that building an index fails. I
read the following on http://freebsd.org/ports
The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the FreeBSD-CURRENT and
FreeBSD-STABLE branches. Older releases are not supported and may or may
not work correctly with an up-to-date ports collection.
So am I out of luck or is there any help out there?
Thanks,
Joey
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