From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 20:05:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64ED216A479 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:05:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E2913C5D2 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:05:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hqx5e-0006Vf-08 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 13:05:46 -0700 Message-ID: <10771764.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:05:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pluta To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: peter@placidpublishing.net Subject: Ports Confusion - some errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 20:05:49 -0000 I recently got an email from portsnap that I have 30 or so ports to update. I did my usual logged in, looked at the ports that needed updating, and went ahead and updated them with portsupgrade -arR. This caused many problems because I had the xorg-libraries installed that needed updating. I screwed a lot of other ports and deps in the process, but this was a good thing. I got some help from a friend and cleaned out maybe 20-30 useless ports that I didn't need, including the xorg libraries - which I no longer had a use for. I had them from an old maia-mailguard install. I also read the /usr/ports/UPDATING file and realized there were specific instructions for the xorg stuff, which I didn't follow. So anyway, my question is. What is the best thing to do in a situation like that when you have many dep erors and such? For example I have a dep that wasn't found by pkgdb -F "stale dependency dovecot 1.0.0 <-- postfix x.x.x.x" was one of them. I tried to rebuild the package db a few times, but it didn't work. I eventually had to reinstall dovecot and postfix. Is this normal? All in all, this message is more of a story then a question, but I thought i'd still ask about the stale deps even though I made many mistakes that most likely were the cause of them in the first place. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ports-Confusion---some-errors-tf3806248.html#a10771764 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.