Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:05:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pluta <peter@placidpublishing.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ports Confusion - some errors Message-ID: <10771764.post@talk.nabble.com>
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I recently got an email from portsnap that I have 30 or so ports to update. I did my usual logged in, looked at the ports that needed updating, and went ahead and updated them with portsupgrade -arR. This caused many problems because I had the xorg-libraries installed that needed updating. I screwed a lot of other ports and deps in the process, but this was a good thing. I got some help from a friend and cleaned out maybe 20-30 useless ports that I didn't need, including the xorg libraries - which I no longer had a use for. I had them from an old maia-mailguard install. I also read the /usr/ports/UPDATING file and realized there were specific instructions for the xorg stuff, which I didn't follow. So anyway, my question is. What is the best thing to do in a situation like that when you have many dep erors and such? For example I have a dep that wasn't found by pkgdb -F "stale dependency dovecot 1.0.0 <-- postfix x.x.x.x" was one of them. I tried to rebuild the package db a few times, but it didn't work. I eventually had to reinstall dovecot and postfix. Is this normal? All in all, this message is more of a story then a question, but I thought i'd still ask about the stale deps even though I made many mistakes that most likely were the cause of them in the first place. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ports-Confusion---some-errors-tf3806248.html#a10771764 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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