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Originally Posted by daemonfowl
.. is there a way to avoid a fresh install , I mean cleaning the mess before I can embark on a fresh upgrade ?
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Only if the root cause can be uncovered and corrected.
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foolish maybe .. if I leave everything as is now , and just go for the upgrade .... ? will afterwards the newer packages overwrite the older ? so bash won't be an issue anymore ?
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A package update does a simultaneous delete and install, since delete fails this will not solve your problem.
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I remember something : I had to build a few ports (and so mixing them with packages ) .. and then , I had removed recursively /usr/ports before I did pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/* ..
could this be the root of the problem?
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I don't think so. The ports framework does not touch the package database except through the make targets that issue pkg_add or pkg_delete.