From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 23:54:27 2004 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 46CF716A4CF; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:54:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6B843D62; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:54:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2V7rX8a021830; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:53:33 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:54:25 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <BB214ED4-82E5-11D8-802A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <BB214ED4-82E5-11D8-802A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403302354.25891.kstewart@owt.com> cc: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: wrestling with b*rked package/ports collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:54:27 -0000 On Tuesday 30 March 2004 11:33 pm, paul beard wrote: > I seem to be in a loop where expat and gettext will somehow not > install in such a way as to serve as valid dependencies. I have > rebuilt either directly or as part of building something else > countless times, as well as installing from a package. For whatever > reason, expat seems to be missing something: > > Error: shared library "expat.5" does not exist > > portupgrade -f, installing from source, installing from a package: > all seem to fail. And since it and/or gettext are core dependencies > for everything else, it seems, there's not much progress being made. > Any other sage advice? On both of them, you needed to portupgrade -rf. Now, I think your links are broken. You might try pkgdb -F can connect the links to the latest version. Then do the forced portupgrade. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html