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Date:      Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:13:24 +0200
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help requested with fixing after ImageMagick update
Message-ID:  <48130E54.2080400@bsdforen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080426063955.6e8117eb@scorpio>
References:  <1209166740.90447.42.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20080426063955.6e8117eb@scorpio>

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Gerard wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:39:00 +0200
> Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> we had a rather intrusive ImageMagick update recently, which left some
>> ports broken. Since it's quite a task for a single guy to fix them
>> all, I'd like to ask you folks to help out with this.
>>
>> This is a list of known breakages:
>>
>> science/gnudatalanguage
>> textproc/htmltolatex
>> graphics/kallery
>> graphics/php-magickwand
>> lang/q
>> graphics/reallyslick
>> graphics/ruby-rmagick
> 
> 
> Usually, I have no major problems updating ports. I use 'portupgrade'
> as my usually ports maintenance tool. However, in case like this I
> prefer 'portmanager'. It seems to correct problems with dependencies
> much better than 'portupgrade'. I would recommend that you do something
> like this:
> 
> 1) If portmanager is not installed, install it.
> 2) Update your ports tree
> 3) Run: portmanager -u -l -p -y
> 
> That should update all of your ports and force a rebuild of any port
> using an old or out dated dependency. It will also create a log file
> in: '/var/log/portmanager.log'. This usually works for me.
> 
> Good luck!

Portmanager cannot work around changed library names either. The ports have to 
be fixed.




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