From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 15:49:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4413016A4E2 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:49:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC34043D49 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:49:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.42]) by mail.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8C731F99F; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:51:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200501260740.48847.reso3w83@verizon.net> References: <002c01c5038a$b9e28ed0$0201a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> <8F131149-6F9F-11D9-A3AB-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> <200501260740.48847.reso3w83@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:49:28 -0500 To: "Michael C. Shultz" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: portmanager loop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:49:32 -0000 On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > Thanks Bart for your patience, this one required me to set up > XFree86-4 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine and back date all of the ports. Perfectly understandable and I thank you for the efforts you're going through to get portmanager updated so quickly. > So > now I know that on December 1st, 2004 /usr/ports/graphics/xfree86-dri > and /usr/ports/graphics/dri both existed and both report their name > as dri-5.0.2,2 on that date. This caused portmanager to loop > so I have duplicated the problem which means it can be fixed. > > I still need to move the ports forward to the current date before > I have a certain fix but right now I think the quick work around will > be > to go into each of these directories (graphics/dri and > graphics/xfree86-dri) and manually de-install them. Then let > portmanager pull back in the correct one. That worked > for the ports as they existed on December 1st, 2004 but I still > need to verify it works for the current date. So for a quick fix at the moment, I should just go into /usr/ports/graphics/dri and /usr/ports/graphics/xfree86-dri and run "make deinstall", then run "portmanager -u" and it should install the proper version for the dependancies, correct? Thanks again! -Bart