Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:25:51 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Alex (DDS)" <akruijff@dds.nl>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade deleting needed packages Message-ID: <0db265525010812FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3C3A4325.3070007@dds.nl> References: <3C3A4325.3070007@dds.nl>
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On Monday 07 January 2002 07:53 pm, Alex (DDS) wrote:
> I have run a system wide update: (pkgdb -F; portupgrade -a -r) and
> portupgrade come up with the followin message:
>
> ---> Deinstalling 'ruby-1.6.5.2001.11.23'
> pkg_delete: package `ruby-1.6.5.2001.11.23' is required by these other
> packages
> and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway):
> portupgrade-20011118
> ruby-fnmatch-1.1b_1
> ruby-optparse-0.8.4
>
> It looks strage to me. Way delete something that is still needed or is
> in use? Is it harmfull for my ports, or will it simply be reistalled later?
It should deinstall only what it plans to re-install later.
If you interrupt it I guess things could get weird but otherwise all should
be ok.
>
> Tanks for you time,
> Alex
>
> FreeBSD kruij557.speed.planet.nl 4.4-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE-p1
> #0: Mon Dec 17 10:38:53 CET 2001
> root@kruij557.speed.planet.nl:/home/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
>
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