Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:04:54 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Andrew <andrew.chace@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb Message-ID: <20060210210454.9764.qmail@web60022.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1139602596.58491.8.camel@netvista.network>
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--- Andrew <andrew.chace@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Andrew writes: > > > > > I've run "pkgdb -F" as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale > > > dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. > > > > I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way > > it works. > > You need to fix, not delete, the stale dependencies. This may > > take some effort the first time around. > > Beyond that, I question the wisdom of any "automatic" > > solution. There are definitely times when I do _not_ want to accept > > the fixes proposed by pkgdb -F. > > My apologies; I re-read the man pages for portupgrade and pkgdb and I > think I understand what's going on now. Ok, but be more careful next time. __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
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