From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 01:28:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB9F16A402 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:28:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from pollux.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-242.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E520E13C468 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:28:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.dfwlp.com (athena.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by pollux.dfwlp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2S1Sgl4053147 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:28:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:28:42 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20070327202842.1678265c.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> References: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pollux.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: the art of pkgdb -F X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:28:45 -0000 On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:17:13 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > I'm looking at > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php > > while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like > > Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 -> p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/p5-GSSAPI): > p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] > > I must ask. How the hell am I supposed to know?? I build that as a dependency > of something that I built months ago. There's a good chance that I'll be > simply guessing at all of the answers. > > Is it really useful to run this if you can't remember? And why am I > remembering anyway? That's what a packaging system is for, isn't it? > > Mike > -- > Michael P. Soulier > "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It > takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite > direction." --Albert Einstein > when i come across those, i always just take the defaults. one time i tried to tell it what i thought, and i built myself into an endless loop of 'run pkgdb -F's. eventually i had to just delete a few things, reinstall a few things to correct it. ever since then, i just do what it says and hope for the best. 9 out of 10, it guesses right for me. hth, jonathan