Activation error

[Frank J. R. Hanstick]

Hello,
	The -f took care of the problem.  Thank you.
Frank

On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:58 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

Frank J. R. Hanstick
trog24 at comcast.net



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