Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:40:45 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" <ej.cerejo@laposte.net> To: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkgdb -F Message-ID: <3ED4E68D.9020707@laposte.net> References: <3ED4AEFA.2040303@buddydog.org>
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Jonathan Arnold wrote: > I'm trying to clean up my pkgdb, so I'm going to take it one step > at a time. First, is there any useful documentation on this? The > man page is rather sparse on how to answer the questions that > pop up. > > For instance, when I run: > > $ pkgdb -F > > I get the following output to start with: > >> ---> Checking the package registry database >> Stale origin: 'multimedia/libmpeg2': perhaps moved or obsoleted. >> Skip this for now? [yes] no >> no >> Browse CVSweb for the port's history? [no] >> Guessing... no idea. >> Not in due form <category/portname>: Fixed. (-> multimedia/libmpeg2) >> Stale dependency: p5-CGI-Application-2.3 -> p5-Test-Harness-2.26 >> (devel/p5-Test-Harness): >> p5-Test-Simple-0.47 (score:53%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] > > > > What does "Stale origin" mean and how do I get rid of it? > > What does "Stale dependency" mean and how do I get rid of it? I take > it to mean in this case that p5-CGI-Application-2.3 depends on > p5-Test-Harness-2.26, and the latter is missing? old? unknown? > > And I think it is trying to tell me that a possible replacement is > p5-Test-Simple-0.47. How do I tell if it is correct? >
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