From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 00:34:12 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 0545316A40B for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:34:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msoulier@digitaltorque.ca) Received: from mail.storm.ca (mail.storm.ca [209.87.239.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9678E13C465 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:34:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msoulier@digitaltorque.ca) Received: from kanga.digitaltorque.ca (hs-216-106-102-70.storm.ca [216.106.102.70]) by mail.storm.ca (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2T0Y6bP014302; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tigger.digitaltorque.ca (tigger.digitaltorque.ca [192.168.1.3]) by kanga.digitaltorque.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281E54E; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by tigger.digitaltorque.ca (Postfix, from userid 500) id EDFCB240F4; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400 From: "Michael P. Soulier" To: Kevin Kinsey Message-ID: <20070329003400.GV11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Kevin Kinsey , Jeffrey Goldberg , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <8cb6106e0703271834l9014bffp8f1d5e753f7ec108@mail.gmail.com> <8EEB22EE-7230-4EEC-BEFE-514EBE059992@goldmark.org> <460A9689.2010506@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lBqJz4CGKwlWe7/k" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <460A9689.2010506@daleco.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jeffrey Goldberg 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: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:34:12 -0000 --lBqJz4CGKwlWe7/k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 28/03/07 Kevin Kinsey said: > Here is a time-honored and rather canonical diatribe on "The Art of=20 > Pkgdb -F" (a great thread title, BTW). Note also that it is nearly > six years old, and that additional package-management tools have been > proposed, created, and released to the public, and some may have already > been EOL'ed and buried, but the rest of them aren't considered "standard"= =20 > by any means, and currently the FreeBSD world is in a pseudo-Biblical > "every man did as he saw fit" state these days[1]. >=20 > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html I suppose I'm curious as to how my ports got into this state in the first place, since I would have expected a package managements system to have prevented it.=20 Now, I've been upgrading ports via portupgrade -R as suggested in the handbook. As -R upgrades only those packages that requi= re those supplied, and not those that it requires, would that cause it? I'm wondering how my port dependencies became broken in the first place. Mike --=20 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 --lBqJz4CGKwlWe7/k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGCwl4KGqCc1vIvggRAjE9AJ4lSktmQxaZEyVgJHe314kmTX53pwCcCpkS pAKQwVXDVIUr1VZDsXlxf+M= =Diys -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lBqJz4CGKwlWe7/k--