In message <Pine.NEB.4.44.0212151329410.400-100000@tautology.immanent.net>, Fre
derick Bruckman writes:
>On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Steve Bellovin wrote:
>
>> ===> Registering installation for fetchmail-6.2.0
>> ===> Cleaning for fetchmail-6.2.0
>> # pkg_info fetchmail
>> pkg_info: can't find package `fetchmail' installed or in a file!
>>
>> I can't 'pkg_delete' fetchmail, nor does 'pkg_info -a' show it.  But if
>> I do a 'make install', I get this:
>>
>> ===> Installing for fetchmail-6.2.0
>> ===>  fetchmail-6.2.0 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
>
>> Clearly, some database is confused.  How can I rebuild it?  (Yes, I'm
>> running as root, on a -current system from about two weeks ago.)
>
>Do you have ${DESTDIR} set in "/etc/mk.conf" or elsewhere?
>

Bingo -- that's it.  This is my -current machine, so I set DESTDIR to 
simplify tree rebuilds.  Thanks!

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
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