From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 09:40:57 2003 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 66ED837B401 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 09:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop015.verizon.net (pop015pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C2D43FAF for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 09:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ej.cerejo@laposte.net) Received: from laposte.net ([68.160.121.87]) by pop015.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030528164055.RFXK20810.pop015.verizon.net@laposte.net>; Wed, 28 May 2003 11:40:55 -0500 Message-ID: <3ED4E68D.9020707@laposte.net> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:40:45 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Arnold References: <3ED4AEFA.2040303@buddydog.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop015.verizon.net from [68.160.121.87] at Wed, 28 May 2003 11:40:54 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkgdb -F 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: Wed, 28 May 2003 16:40:57 -0000 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 : 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? >