Subject: Re: Problems with pkg db under 1.6.2_STABLE?
To: Christopher W. Richardson <cwr@nexthop.com>
From: Robert Lillack <lillack@mis.mpg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/08/2004 19:12:17
Christopher W. Richardson wrote:

[...]

> cwr@achilles$ make update

[...]

> ===> wget-1.9.1nb1 is already installed - perhaps an older version?

[...]

> So, it appears that things actually _are_ installed properly, but
> pkg_info doesn't see them.  This has happened for every (non
> pkg_tools) package that I've attempted to upgrade so far.  Am I
> doing something wrong?  Any ideas?

Are you sure the packages *really* get rebuild? Just try a 'make
clean clean-depends' before doing the update. To me, it looks
like you have those readily built versions laying around in the
working dirs.

Cheers, Rob.
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