From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 10:53:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B2A16A41F for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:53:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CADB43D48 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:53:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so395262nzk for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:53:43 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Z7x+JDsGPIzUrPN4y/NyMgxva3EZ+jQojDdXMnii8ht1Dah1h9I/TA4i/+1qXGg8+HVultsmfhuBXvZeTcvwyoYyjmYVYwtjZyKw6rD0rz7F2anbGh1iZRxD4lf8giazcmbTcQ61jWqHDDqXIwgbE3oqCiBhnL/Dnh2xxyXA9ko= Received: by 10.36.221.33 with SMTP id t33mr147800nzg; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id j4sm130230nzd.2005.10.28.03.53.41; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:53:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: "Andrew P." Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:55:25 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200510271904.17908.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510280355.26245.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: Eric F Crist , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, John DeStefano Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies 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: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:53:44 -0000 On Friday 28 October 2005 00:25, Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/28/05, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:49, Eric F Crist wrote: > > > On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:32 PM, John DeStefano wrote: > > > > On 10/27/05, Andrew P. wrote: > > > >> On 10/27/05, John DeStefano wrote: > > > >>> After clearing out the ports, updating ports (with portsnap) and > > > >>> source, and rebuilding the system and kernel... it seemed the > > > >>> ultimate > > > >>> problem was actually a dependency of the package to apache1.3. > > > >>> After I > > > >>> ran 'pkgdb -F' and "fixed" this dependency to point to apache2.1, > > > >>> but > > > >>> I still had trouble installing ports. > > > > > > At this point, what usually works for me is to: > > > > > > #cd /usr && rm -rf ./ports > > > > > > #mkdir ./ports && cvsup /root/ports-supfile > > > > > > The above will delete your ENTIRE ports tree, provided it's kept in / > > > usr/ports and as long as you use cvsup (and your ports supfile is / > > > root/ports-supfile as mine is). When a whole bunch of ports stop > > > working, I find this is the easiest thing to do. > > > > > > The other thing I do is run a cron job every week that updates, via > > > cvsup, the ports tree. About once a year I perform the above, mostly > > > to clean out the crap. Re-downloading your entire ports tree will be > > > quicker if you don't use the ports-all tag and actually define which > > > port segments you are interested in. For example, there's no real > > > reason to download all the x11/kde/gnome crap if you're doing this on > > > a headless server that isn't going to serve X. > > > > > > HTH > > > > Replacing /usr/ports won't fix his problems, they reside in /var/db/pkg. > > I may be a bit biased but I reaaly think John D. should try running > > portmanager -u (ports/sysutils/portmanager). Stale dependencies is a n= on > > issue for portmanager. > > > > -Mike > > > > I don't think that stale dependencies are an issue for > portupgrade as well, just add "-O" to the command- > line. =46rom portupgrade's man page: -O --omit-check Omit sanity checks for dependencies. By defaul= t, portupgrade checks if all the packages to upgra= de have consistent dependencies, though it takes extra time to calculate dependencies. If you a= re sure you have run ``pkgdb -F'' in advance, you = can specify this option to omit the sanity checks. Seems to be a caveat to the -O command. What happens if pkgdb -F isn't run first? =2DMike