Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 05:42:48 -0700 From: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade has serious problems Message-ID: <200809080542.49038.david@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <48C5138A.505@FreeBSD.org> References: <200809011300.48256.david@vizion2000.net> <200809080235.02554.david@vizion2000.net> <48C5138A.505@FreeBSD.org>
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On Monday 08 September 2008 04:59:06 Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > David Southwell wrote: > > ---> Skipping 'x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk2' (ruby18-gtk2-0.16.0.20080706) > > because a requisite package 'ruby18-gdk_pixbuf2-0.16.0.20080706' () > > failed (specify -k to force) > > Empty brackets display a problem with a database. But for some reason it > can't be detected by bdb engine. > > > ---> Skipping 'devel/ruby-libglade2' (ruby18-libglade2-0.16.0.20080706) > > because a requisite package 'ruby18-gtk2-0.16.0.20080706' > > (x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk2) failed (specify -k to force) > > > > All these problems have identical symptoms and are fixed by rerunning > > portupgrade!! > > It looks as though portupgrade is failing to reexamine the database after > > each upgrade OR is searching for a dependency which is limited to the > > previous version! > > Could you remove both /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and /usr/ports/INDEX*.db and > rerun portupgrade? They will be recreated automatically. OK done that I will report back when I have done a few cvsups and portupgrade runs and see whether that fixes the problem. Thanks for keeping on to this. Lets hope this works David
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