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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:02:29 -0500
From:      Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade woes ...
Message-ID:  <20060318080110.E860.GERARD@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <1142683259.65675.6.camel@localhost>
References:  <1142683259.65675.6.camel@localhost>

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Kiffin Gish wrote:

> I want to find out which ports need updating by running 'portupgrade
> -arR' "<". However, I am getting the following error message:
> 
> Stale dependency: ImageMagick-6.2.5.5_3 --> lcms-1.14_1,1 -- manually
> run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
> 
> As suggested, I run 'pkgdb -F' and after a couple minutes, it seems to
> have fixed a number of problems.
> 
> Rerunning portupgrade results in the same error as above.
> 
> I tried rebuilding the port as follows:
> 
> cd /usr/ports
> make fetchindex
> portsdb -u
> 
> And then retrying the above, but this doesn;t help either.
> 
> Help! How can I break out of this viscous circle and become a sane
> FreeBSD-er again?! 
> 
> -- 
> Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>

Try running 'portmanager -uly' and see if that doesn't fix your problem.

-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard@seibercom.net




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