From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 31 21:15:58 2007 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 38BF916A41B for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:15:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1568B13C45B for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:15:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hymn01.u.washington.edu (hymn01.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.55]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.06) with ESMTP id l6VLFuvq019995 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:15:57 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn01.u.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l6VLFumX009706; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:15:56 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.55.52.4] by hymn01.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:15:56 PDT Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:15:56 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Adam J Richardson In-Reply-To: <46AFA376.5020900@crackmonkey.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 5.3.2.304607, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.7.31.140035 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Cc: Noah , User Questions Subject: Re: difficulties remove stale dependency 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: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:15:58 -0000 On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: > Noah wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> any clues on how to cure this situation. It appears I am having >> difficulties removing stale dependencies. >> >> access1# portupgrade -a >> Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_2 <-- emacs-21.3_9 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' >> to fix, or specify -O to force. >> access1# portupgrade - >> access1# pkgdb -F >> ---> Checking the package registry database >> access1# pkgdb -FO >> ---> Checking the package registry database >> access1# portupgrade -a >> Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_2 <-- emacs-21.3_9 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' >> to fix, or specify -O to force. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Noah > > Hi Noah, > > I get this a lot on one of my systems. Just that one - no idea why. Anyway, I > find including option -O allows most things to ignore stale links, including > portupgrade. > > Oh - did you try installing portupgrade-devel and not portupgrade? That helped > me out of a hole once and now I use it for everything. > > HtH, > Adam J Richardson Simply put, emacs is a trouble maker with all of the versions that are available in the source tree. I think that porters are working on improving the system in place. -Garrett