Subject: Re: pkgsrc question
To: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/22/2001 09:44:27
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> On 22.04.01, 08:46:17, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > Also, once or twice I've had trouble updating a package if there
> > were old versions of the package lying around in the work/ directory.
> > pkgsrc thought that the work/ copy was the current version, and
> > assumed that it didn't need to rebuild anything.
>
> Well, that's what "make clean" is for :) If you do it in the top-level
> pkgsrc directory, it will clean all the work directories.
Or "make clean-depends" from the target directory, except that it's
slightly broken, and doesn't recurse fully.
Frederick