From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 03:51:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E943C106566C for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:51:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+UR=35ee4d0f@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C6A8FC22 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:51:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+UR=35ee4d0f@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-04.mxes.net (mxout-04.mxes.net [216.86.168.179]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE34163E00 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:32:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074B8D05B9 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:32:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:32:12 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080331043212.75b62f21@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080330222419.060f69b5.ejcerejo@optonline.net> References: <20080330222419.060f69b5.ejcerejo@optonline.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Cyclic dependencies = pain in the butt 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: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:51:58 -0000 On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:24:19 -0400 Eduardo Cerejo wrote: > After running pkgdb -F I'm getting endless cyclic dependencies, so > many of them that I completely gave up. The last one goes like this: > > ---> Checking the package registry database > Cyclic dependencies: gnome-desktop-2.22.0 -> nautilus-2.22.1 -> > eel-2.22.1 -> py25-gnome-2.22.0 -> tracker-0.6.2_2 -> > (gnome-desktop-2.22.0) Unlink which dependency? (? to help): > > What does this mean? Is there another way to fix this than to figure > this out? How am I suppose to know what depends on what? I thought > portupgrade would do that automatically. Try going to x11-toolkits/py-gnome2, and doing a make all-depends-list to see if it really does depend on tracker-0.6.2_2 It doesn't in my tree, but it may be that you have hit on a combination of options that produces the cycle.