On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 18:29:25 -0500, Shawn Webb wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:35:50PM +0100, Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote: >> I had a strange error: Make reinstall does not work anymore in the port >> (10.3-amd64) also FORCE_PKG_REGISTER. >> >> All other make commands works fine. I don't know if it is related to >> FLAVORS. >> >> make reinstall ended up e.g. with: >> >> ??Registering installation for gtk2-2.24.31 >> *** Error code 70 >> >> Stop. >> make[2]: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20 >> *** Error code 1 >> >> Stop. >> make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20 >> *** Error code 1 >> >> Any idea or suggestion? > > This is due to this commit: > https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/commit/7991c49665419916210ad589d4a85fd2a7f58b37 > > The standard procedure for reinstall is to do a deinstall first. I > guess it's pretty common just to issue `make reinstall` (which is what > I used to do as well). However, that's not the originally intended > behavior as designed in the Ports build framework. > > So: just do a `make deinstall reinstall`. It'll work that way.
This makes no sense to me. Why not just 'make deinstall install'? Unfortunately 10 minutes of searching weren't enough to find anything in the handbook. What happened to the flat view? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
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