Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:44:10 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reparing FreeBSD ports tree. Message-ID: <41F6694A.9000600@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200501250627.33542.reso3w83@verizon.net> References: <41F60A3F.7040908@myunix.net> <200501250627.33542.reso3w83@verizon.net>
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Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:58 am, Christian Tischler wrote: > >>Hi everyone. >>My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a >>portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tree ist all >>screwed up. There are tons of wrong/failed/whatever dependencies and >>some ports wont work. >>How can I repair this problem without an complete reinstall of the >>system? I have a lot of services running for my local net and a huge >>amount of configurations. >>For exsample when I do /usr/ports/make index I get: >>---------- >># make index >>Generating INDEX - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.5_5: >>"/usr/ports/print/acroread5" non-existent -- dependency list >>incomplete ===> print/apsfilter failed >>*** Error code 1 >>1 error > > > In /usr/ports/MOVED, > > "print/acroread5|print/acroread|2004-12-23|last Acrobat Reader port > remaining" > > which means this directory has been moved. > > My advice is to run sysutils/portmanager and NEVER ever run pkgdb -F if > you want to keep your dependencies from getting messed up. > > portmanager will automatically remove your installed print/acroread5 > because it has been removed from cvs, it does not use INDEX files > so they will become a non issue for you as well. > > The only way to protect your "large amount of configurations" is to > back them up! You never know when a port is going to over write a > configuration file so if they are real important to you, back them up. > > -Mike > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Is portmanager now the generally accepted way of keeping your ports updated? Also, what's this "extract" thing I have seen mentioned in relation to this? Chris
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