Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:27:00 +0100 From: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade woes ... Message-ID: <1142692020.60337.2.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <44fylf4zq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1142683259.65675.6.camel@localhost> <44fylf4zq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> writes: > > > 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?! > > What a sticky situation. > > First of all, I think you would do best right now to build your own > index. 'portsdb -uU' will take a while, but it will match exactly > what you have installed, which will probably help getting the > dependency comparisons correct. > > Also, run 'pkgdb -F' until it stops reporting problems. Thanks for the tip, but as luck has it, I just happened to figure out another (better?) solution. I simply de-installed ImageMagick using pkg_delete and then rebuilt it by doing a make install clean. And that worked, believe it or not! -- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
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