On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:55 pm, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:34 pm, "Michael C. Shultz"
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I get the following error when trying to deinstall
> > desktop-file-utils:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils#make deinstall
> > ===> Deinstalling for devel/desktop-file-utils
> > ===> Deinstalling desktop-file-utils-0.10
> > ===> desktop-file-utils-0.9 has a different PREFIX: /usr/X11R6,
> > skipping
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils#
> >
> > I have no idea what is causing this, do you?
>
> Yes, the 0.10 version installs the binary in ${LOCALBASE}/bin , which
> is /usr/local/bin , instead of ${X11BASE}/bin , which
> is /usr/X11R6/bin/. I'm not sure why it's not finding it correctly in
> your case, as it will deinstall for me. Maybe your pkgdb isn't
> correct. Maybe try pkgdb -F. This change has caused some problems
> (not sure if the change were intentional), specifically with gimp,
> and I sent a patch to the list for that earlier. The patch solves the
> problem for gimp, but I'm not sure that desktop-file-utils is
> supposed to be installing in LOCALBASE.
It was causing a looping problem in portmanager, but I will make a
change to run pkg_delete instead of "make clean" because this is likely
to happen again in another port I suppose.
>
> > Also I think going from version 0.9 to 0.10 is actually going
> > backwards, probably should have gone from 0.09 to 0.10, and maybe
> > you are going to need to set PORTEPOCH=1 ?
>
> Not sure ...
>
It is'nt going backward, Michael Johnson just told me about
using pkg_version -t 0.9 0.10 to test it.
-Mike
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