Activation error

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Mar 26 16:58:15 PDT 2009


William Davis wrote:
> Usually that is a left over file from a failed install. In this case just do
> sudo port -f upgrade xorg-libX11   [or do -fu if you don't want to keep
> the old version]

Don't do that. Upgrade normally applies to all dependencies as well, so
you would be rebuilding all of them because of the -f. (You can use -n
to avoid processing dependencies.)

In fact, -f upgrade is not called for in this situation at all, but
rather -f activate.

- Josh


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