Re: unable to update pkgsrc from 1.6.2

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:50:15AM +0200, Jan-Hinrich Fessel wrote:
> Is there any way to force pkgsrc's build system to actually delete
> the old files and install the new ones?
> Or must I do a replace instead of an upgrade?  What does this do to
> dependencies I als want to be updated?

The problem is that you seemed to have ended up with multiple versions
of readline in the database. Just do another "pkg_delete -f readline".
I would also suggest "pkg_admin rebuild" as the database is most likely
semi-broken.

Joerg