Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 16:52:36 -0500 From: "Joey Mingrone" <mingrone@hotmail.com> To: drew@mykitchentable.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please Message-ID: <Sea2-F39PeLjCdclVXO0001fc69@hotmail.com>
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have you tried a "portsdb -Uu" to rebuild your indices? > >I'm not sure what I've done but I'll describe my symptoms. I'm running >4.8-RELEASE with a Gnome2 desktop and the dependent ports. The only >additional ports I've installed are cvsup-without-gui, portupgrade, >mplayer, >evolution, galeon, and their dependencies. Everything was installed by >portupgrade except portupgrade itself. Everything was running along fine >until I decided to use portupgrade to upgrade my installed ports. > >It doesn't seem to matter which port I pick to upgrade, I get the same >result. In my latest attempt, I tried to upgrade >XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1. >Here is the error: > >pkg_delete: package 'XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1' doesn't have a prefix >** The following packages were not deinstalled (*:skipped / !:failed) > ! XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1 (pkg_delete failed) >** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / >!:failed) > ! x11/XFree86-4-libraries (XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1) (uninstall >error) > >Now at this point, anything else I try to do with portupgrade tells me that >I have stale dependencies and to run 'pkgdb -f' which I do and get many >messages such as this: > >Stale dependency: xenostep-200011270836_1 -> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_3 >(x11/XFree86-4-libraries): >Fixed. (-> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1) > >And then the process repeats itself no matter what port I try to upgrade. >Another anomoly is that a 'pkg_info' command shows the following in >addition >to the normal output: > >pkg_info: can't find package 'freetype2-2.1.4' installed or in a file! >pkg_info: can't find package 'glib-1.2.10_8' installed or in a file! >pkg_info: can't find package 'glib-2.2.1' installed or in a file! >pkg_info: can't find package 'libxml2-2.5.6' installed or in a file! >pkg_info: can't find package 'nspr-4.3' installed or in a file! > >I've tried removing and reinstalling these ports both within portupgrade >and >separately using 'make deinstall', 'make clean', and 'make install' but am >still having these symptoms. > >Anyway, if anyone has ideas on what I may have screwed up I'd really like >to >know so I can fix my mess and learn something along the way. But if not I >can remove everything and start over as this is just a box I am playing >with. > >Thanks for your suggestions!!! > >Drew > > > >I would like to understand what is going on and fix it rather than just >removing everything and starting over. > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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