Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:46:08 +1300 From: Lists <lists@eyede.com> To: Andrew <andrew.chace@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb Message-ID: <43F287E0.4000403@eyede.com> In-Reply-To: <1139602596.58491.8.camel@netvista.network> References: <1139589051.2185.8.camel@netvista.network> <17388.49778.982280.245532@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1139602596.58491.8.camel@netvista.network>
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Andrew wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>> Andrew writes:
>>
>>> I've run "pkgdb -F" as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale
>>> dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing.
>> I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way
>> it works.
>> You need to fix, not delete, the stale dependencies. This may
>> take some effort the first time around.
>> Beyond that, I question the wisdom of any "automatic"
>> solution. There are definitely times when I do _not_ want to accept
>> the fixes proposed by pkgdb -F.
>
> My apologies; I re-read the man pages for portupgrade and pkgdb and I
> think I understand what's going on now. Thanks anyway...
>
> -Andrew
A good solution in the long term, rather than fixing dependencies every
time you do an upgrade, is to look at the ALT_PKGDEP section of
pkgtools.conf. Here is how i addressed the cdrtools dependency you
mentioned.
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'cdr-tools*' => 'cjk-cdrtools*',
'pcre-*' => 'pcre-utf8',
}
>
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