Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:52:00 -0800 From: John W <jwdevel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: fixing up port dependencies properly Message-ID: <fa8771801002021952u558b4c73od538c4aa5160d1bc@mail.gmail.com>
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I originally asked this at freebsd-questions, but didn't get much info.
Maybe someone here can help?
I'm interested in really understanding what's going on rather than a
"magic" solution (though those are welcome too)
Here's the original email:
I updated my ports tree with csup, and tried to run 'portmaster -na'.
It gave me this:
===>>> The mail/p5-Email-Simple-Creator port has been deleted:
Folded into p5-Email-Simple package
Ok, that makes sense. But what do I do to fix it?
It seems I need to replace dependencies on p5-Email-Simple-Creator
with dependencies on p5-Email-Simple.
But if I manually do that, won't my changes be blown away the next
time I update ports?
Perhaps I should use the '-o' (origin) option of portmaster? I'm not
100% sure what that does, incidentally (explanation welcome).
I assume something like:
portmaster -o p5-Email-Simple p5-Email-Simple-Creator
Will those changes get blown away by the next update of ports?
Is the most correct solution just to wait until all maintainers of
ports which depend on p5-Email-Simple-Creator each update their
makefiles to depend on p5-Email-Simple, instead? (Though that doesn't
help in the short term :)
I'm curious of people's thoughts on this.
Thanks
-John
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