Macports, port upgarde and depenadncies definately flawed

Keith J. Schultz keithjschultz at web.de
Wed Jul 25 02:45:11 PDT 2007


Hi All,

	To add to the on-going discussion. I just did:
		sudo port -f upgrade gnome-user-docs

	I get the following output
		Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
--->  Deactivating libart_lgpl 2.3.19_1
--->  Uninstalling libart_lgpl 2.3.19_1
--->  Installing libart_lgpl 2.3.19_1
--->  Activating libart_lgpl 2.3.19_1
--->  Cleaning libart_lgpl
--->  Fetching XFree86

Error:
                     You have an Apple X11 installation already.
                         MacPorts will not overwrite it.

                     If you really want to use XFree86 instead,
                         please move it aside first :

                             sudo mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6.apple

--->  Attempting to fetch XFree86-4.6.0-src-1.tgz from http://ftp- 
stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.xfree86.org/XFree86/4.6.0/source/
--->  Attempting to fetch XFree86-4.6.0-src-2.tgz from http://ftp- 
stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.xfree86.org/XFree86/4.6.0/source/
--->  Attempting to fetch XFree86-4.6.0-src-3.tgz from http://ftp- 
stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.xfree86.org/XFree86/4.6.0/source/
--->  Attempting to fetch XFree86-4.6.0-src-4.tgz from http://ftp- 
stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.xfree86.org/XFree86/4.6.0/source/
--->  Attempting to fetch XFree86-4.6.0-src-5.tgz from http://ftp- 
stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.xfree86.org/XFree86/4.6.0/source/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for XFree86
--->  Extracting XFree86
--->  Applying patches to XFree86
--->  Configuring XFree86
--->  Building XFree86 with target World

	Well if it sees I have X11 and I definately do not want to install  
why does it do it anyway ?
	I guess I going to write my own perl script for upgrading, because  
it is ridiculous that port
	wants to install things I do not want need screwing up my set up.
	
	Accidently hit Ctrl-C instead of Command- C for the copy. Oh, well  
back to the drawing board.

	Interestingly, when I did sudo port -d upgrade gnome-user-docs Xfree  
was not installed.

	regards
		Keith.

  



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