Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:04:17 -0700 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net>, John DeStefano <john.destefano@gmail.com> Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies Message-ID: <200510271904.17908.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0E2AAC01-B12D-4A7A-A986-B7A57DDDEDFF@secure-computing.net> References: <f2160e0d0510151746n28cdbb25s2150337c0c6f7cfc@mail.gmail.com> <f2160e0d0510271832s68dc34c3ge7c7a04e1d20bf60@mail.gmail.com> <0E2AAC01-B12D-4A7A-A986-B7A57DDDEDFF@secure-computing.net>
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On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:49, Eric F Crist wrote: > On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:32 PM, John DeStefano wrote: > > On 10/27/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 10/27/05, John DeStefano <john.destefano@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> After clearing out the ports, updating ports (with portsnap) and > >>> source, and rebuilding the system and kernel... it seemed the > >>> ultimate > >>> problem was actually a dependency of the package to apache1.3. > >>> After I > >>> ran 'pkgdb -F' and "fixed" this dependency to point to apache2.1, > >>> but > >>> I still had trouble installing ports. > > At this point, what usually works for me is to: > > #cd /usr && rm -rf ./ports > > #mkdir ./ports && cvsup /root/ports-supfile > > The above will delete your ENTIRE ports tree, provided it's kept in / > usr/ports and as long as you use cvsup (and your ports supfile is / > root/ports-supfile as mine is). When a whole bunch of ports stop > working, I find this is the easiest thing to do. > > The other thing I do is run a cron job every week that updates, via > cvsup, the ports tree. About once a year I perform the above, mostly > to clean out the crap. Re-downloading your entire ports tree will be > quicker if you don't use the ports-all tag and actually define which > port segments you are interested in. For example, there's no real > reason to download all the x11/kde/gnome crap if you're doing this on > a headless server that isn't going to serve X. > > HTH Replacing /usr/ports won't fix his problems, they reside in /var/db/pkg. I may be a bit biased but I reaaly think John D. should try running portmanager -u (ports/sysutils/portmanager). Stale dependencies is a non issue for portmanager. -Mike
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