Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:21:00 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: John DeStefano <john.destefano@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies Message-ID: <cb5206420510151821u7f57301ej40baac1ee7bcc08@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f2160e0d0510151746n28cdbb25s2150337c0c6f7cfc@mail.gmail.com> References: <f2160e0d0510151746n28cdbb25s2150337c0c6f7cfc@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/16/05, John DeStefano <john.destefano@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to use portupgrade to update my installed ports. I ran into > trouble with dependencies with ImageMagick and xorg-libraries, and I then > followed the suggestion in UPDATING to delete XFree86 the imake-4 package= s, > and install the full xorg port. > > After all that, I got more dependency errors: > 'Stale dependency: aalib-1.4.r5_1 --> imake-4.3.0_1 -- manually run 'pkgd= b > -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.' > > 'pkgdb -O' returned an invalid option error, and 'pkgdb -o aalib-1.4.r5_1= ' > returned 'graphics/aalib'. I then ran 'pkgdb -F' to try and fix this (and > many, many other) stale dependencies, but the error I got when trying to = run > portupgrade afterward simply changed the stale dependency error to ' > aalib-1.4.r5_1 --> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6'. > > How does one get around these dependency errors without destroying a syst= em? > Any good resources on dealing with this? I keep reading that I should jus= t > run 'pkgdb -F' but that only gets one so far. > > Thanks, > ~John > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > > If you don't have a whole free week, consider deinstalling every port on your system (with pkg_deinstall preferably), installing cvsup, updating your ports tree, installing portupgrade, and portinstalling all the ports you really need. That should only take a couple of days :-)
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