Overwrite FreeBSD ports

Upgrade ports is easy, using portupgrade. Even portupgrade can upgrade it’s own program

The problem come with error message ‘xxxx already installed’, how to overcome this problem?

Answer: read the guide

kongja# portupgrade p5-libwww-5.79_1

—> Upgrading ‘p5-libwww-5.79_1′ to ‘p5-libwww-5.803′ (www/p5-libwww)
—> Building ‘/usr/ports/www/p5-libwww’
===> Cleaning for p5-Compress-Zlib-1.33
bla…bla..bla

===> Checking if net/p5-URI already installed
===> p5-URI-1.35 is already installed
You may wish to “make deinstall” and install this port again
“make reinstall” to upgrade it properly.
If you really wish to overwrite the old port of net/p5-URI
without deleting it first, set the variable “FORCE_PKG_REGISTER”
in your environment or the “make install” command line.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/net/p5-URI.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade30900.0 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
! www/p5-libwww (p5-libwww-5.79_1) (unknown build error)
—> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed

wow, check if the ports already installed

kongja# pkg_info | grep p5-URI

p5-URI-1.35 Perl5 interface to Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) refere
ouch, its real the ports aleady installed
try edit make file

kongja# cd /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww/
kongja# ee Makefile

found this stuff :
BUILD_DEPENDS= ${SITE_PERL}/URI.pm:${PORTSDIR}/net/p5-URI \
${SITE_PERL}/${PERL_ARCH}/Digest/MD5.pm:${PORTSDIR}/security/p5-Digest-MD5 \
${SITE_PERL}/${PERL_ARCH}/Compress/Zlib.pm:${PORTSDIR}/archivers/p5-Compress-Zlib
{SITE_PERL}/${PERL_ARCH}/MIME/Base64.pm:${PORTSDIR}/converters/p5-MIME-Base64 \
${SITE_PERL}/Net/FTP.pm:${PORTSDIR}/net/p5-Net \
${SITE_PERL}/${PERL_ARCH}/HTML/Parser.pm:${PORTSDIR}/www/p5-HTML-Parser
RUN_DEPENDS= ${BUILD_DEPENDS}

try to edit after making backup first

kongja# cp Makefile Makefile_old
kongja# ee Makefile
coba lagi portupgrade
kongja# portupgrade p5-libwww-5.79_1

still same error message

after reading and bit googling, this command issued :

kongja# portupgrade -m FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=1 p5-libwww-5.79_1

……
………………
……………………..
===> Cleaning for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.04
===> Cleaning for p5-libwww-5.803
—> Cleaning out obsolete shared libraries
[Updating the pkgdb
in /var/db/pkg ... - 106 packages found (-0 +1) . done]

-m = option for ports, in this case FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=1

read…read

• FORCE_PKG_REGISTER
• freebsd FORCE_PKG_REGISTER
• force_pkg_register freebsd
• without deleting it first set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER
• make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER