Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:53:07 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net> To: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reparing FreeBSD ports tree. Message-ID: <200501250753.08740.reso3w83@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <41F6694A.9000600@cis.strath.ac.uk> References: <41F60A3F.7040908@myunix.net> <200501250627.33542.reso3w83@verizon.net> <41F6694A.9000600@cis.strath.ac.uk>
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On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:44 am, you wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:58 am, Christian Tischler wrote: > >>Hi everyone. > >>My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a > >>portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tree ist > >> all screwed up. There are tons of wrong/failed/whatever > >> dependencies and some ports wont work. > >>How can I repair this problem without an complete reinstall of the > >>system? I have a lot of services running for my local net and a > >> huge amount of configurations. > >>For exsample when I do /usr/ports/make index I get: > >>---------- > >># make index > >>Generating INDEX - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.5_5: > >>"/usr/ports/print/acroread5" non-existent -- dependency list > >>incomplete ===> print/apsfilter failed > >>*** Error code 1 > >>1 error > > > > In /usr/ports/MOVED, > > > > "print/acroread5|print/acroread|2004-12-23|last Acrobat Reader port > > remaining" > > > > which means this directory has been moved. > > > > My advice is to run sysutils/portmanager and NEVER ever run pkgdb > > -F if you want to keep your dependencies from getting messed up. > > > > portmanager will automatically remove your installed > > print/acroread5 because it has been removed from cvs, it does not > > use INDEX files so they will become a non issue for you as well. > > > > The only way to protect your "large amount of configurations" is > > to back them up! You never know when a port is going to over write > > a configuration file so if they are real important to you, back > > them up. > > > > -Mike > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Is portmanager now the generally accepted way of keeping your ports > updated? There are people who prefer portmanager, but many have never tried it and still recommend portupgrade. Here is a link with some information and comments about portmanager. http://bsdnews.com/index.php3?story_start=5 > Also, what's this "extract" thing I have seen mentioned in > relation to this? > > Chris What extract thing? Be more specific please. -Mike
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