Subject: Re: Question on building gimp dep. libgnomeui
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Huub <huubvanniekerk@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/29/2007 13:02:51
Greg Troxel wrote:
> Do you have any old work directories?
> 
> cd /usr/pkgsrc
> ls -ld */*/work
> 
> if found:
> 
> rm -rf */*/work
> 
> or more safe, but longer:
> 
> cd /usr/pkgsrc
> make clean
> 
> 
> Then try again.  The problem is often that with an earlier version of
> pkgsrc something was built, and not 'make clean'ed'.  The work directory
> has files (e.g., work/.install_done) that indicate that the package has
> been installed.
> 
> 
> I always get rid of work directories as soon as I'm done - my normal
> incantation on upgrades is 'make replace package clean'.
> 
> See pkgtools/pkg_rolling-replace.  Sounds like your installation has a
> number of out of date packages, and in general a partial upgrade is
> difficult.  In your case, gimp 2.2.17 seems to need newer libgnomeui for
> some reason.
> 
> 

Yup, working now. Thank you.