From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 21 14:35:17 2004 Return-Path: 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 1BA0416A4CE for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:35:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cardinal.mail.pas.earthlink.net (cardinal.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED0743D41 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:35:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@inbox.lv) Received: from pool0163.cvx28-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.128.163] helo=ringworm.mojavegreen.com) by cardinal.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1ByWxY-00005u-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:35:13 -0700 Received: by ringworm.mojavegreen.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C4677B478F; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:35:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:35:09 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040821092242.55846.qmail@web51306.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040821092242.55846.qmail@web51306.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408210735.14586.ringworm@inbox.lv> Subject: Re: stale dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:35:17 -0000 On Saturday 21 August 2004 2:22 am, Mark Withers wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I've been using FBSD for a few years now, but am not > sure as to what a 'stale dependency' is... > > I am receiving an error message with ymessenger pkg > that it has stale dependencies and to use 'pkgdb -F' > to fix or -O to force. > > I'm a bit inexperienced when it comes to repairing the > package db and would appreciate any pointers you can > give. > > Thanks for listening... > > Mark Stale dependency means portupgrade doesn't recognize the dependency port used to build the listed port. It wants you to use pkgdb -F so it can force the dependency to be something portupgrade recognizes. Though your listed port was built with a "stale" (out of date) dependency port, portupgrade wants to change so that it looks like the listed port was built with a current up to date dependency. A better approach is to rebuild the port with newer, up to date dependency ports that are not "stale". I suggest you get a current cvsup then update your port collection with sysutils/portmanager, it will rebuild your ports with only up to date dependencies. -Mike