Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:13:10 -0400 From: ravi <gadfly@exitleft.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-RELEASE Xorg switch question Message-ID: <4284B5F6.5060308@exitleft.org> In-Reply-To: <448y2jz3vg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <427A423E.30803@exitleft.org> <44ll6sdr71.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <427BDA02.9040106@exitleft.org> <44ekcj83yd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4283C4DE.1000706@exitleft.org> <448y2jz3vg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 05/13/05 08:50, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > ravi <gadfly@exitleft.org> writes: >> On 05/07/05 11:12, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> > Hmm. Are you sure that you deleted the imake ports before building >> > X.Org? You shouldn't have stale imake dependencies from X.Org if you >> > rebuilt both. And the stale dependencies from other X ports should >> > get fixed up by pkgdb -F (which *will* require you to redirect the >> > dependencies, of course). >> >> w.r.t your last point, are you saying then that i have to: >> >> pkgdb ... -s /imake-4.../imake-6.../ >> pkgdb ... -s /XFree86-libraries-.../xorg-libraries-.../ >> etc >> >> or run 'pkgdb -F' and delete all the stale dependencies? (which i am >> guessing is a bad thing to do). > > If you run 'pkgdb -F', it should suggest redirecting the dependencies, > and it will probably suggest the correct new dependencies. But if you > really deleted all of the imake ports before building x.org, you > wouldn't have incorrect dependencies in the first place. > unfortunately, 'pkgdb -F' does not suggest the redirections. perhaps, as you seem to suspect ;-), i messed up (or plain forgot) the deletion of the imake ports. now that i am in the state i am in, would you consider it safe to run 'pkgdb -F' (or -s) and provide the xorg equivalents as replacements for the XFree86 ports? thank you, --ravi
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