Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400 From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Subject: Re: the art of pkgdb -F Message-ID: <20070329003400.GV11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> In-Reply-To: <460A9689.2010506@daleco.biz> References: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <8cb6106e0703271834l9014bffp8f1d5e753f7ec108@mail.gmail.com> <8EEB22EE-7230-4EEC-BEFE-514EBE059992@goldmark.org> <460A9689.2010506@daleco.biz>
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--lBqJz4CGKwlWe7/k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 28/03/07 Kevin Kinsey said: > Here is a time-honored and rather canonical diatribe on "The Art of=20 > Pkgdb -F" (a great thread title, BTW). Note also that it is nearly > six years old, and that additional package-management tools have been > proposed, created, and released to the public, and some may have already > been EOL'ed and buried, but the rest of them aren't considered "standard"= =20 > by any means, and currently the FreeBSD world is in a pseudo-Biblical > "every man did as he saw fit" state these days[1]. >=20 > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html I suppose I'm curious as to how my ports got into this state in the first place, since I would have expected a package managements system to have prevented it.=20 Now, I've been upgrading ports via portupgrade -R <port> as suggested in the handbook. As -R upgrades only those packages that requi= re those supplied, and not those that it requires, would that cause it? I'm wondering how my port dependencies became broken in the first place. Mike --=20 Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein --lBqJz4CGKwlWe7/k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGCwl4KGqCc1vIvggRAjE9AJ4lSktmQxaZEyVgJHe314kmTX53pwCcCpkS pAKQwVXDVIUr1VZDsXlxf+M= =Diys -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lBqJz4CGKwlWe7/k--
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