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
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