Activation error
William Davis
frstan at bellsouth.net
Thu Mar 26 18:00:39 PDT 2009
right you are!
WSD
On Mar 26, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
> 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
William Davis
frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
Mac OS X.5.6 Darwin 9.5.0
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