Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:12:22 +0100 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: nikolaj.thygesen@diamondbox.dk Cc: RW <mlt01@mlists.homeunix.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <46F3A716.5060203@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <8184.80.80.2.75.1190371765.squirrel@webmail1.one.com> References: <8980.80.80.2.75.1190116887.squirrel@webmail1.one.com> <20070918124601.GA52705@amilo.cenkes.org> <20070918162214.43a1988f@gumby.homeunix.com.> <3538.80.80.2.75.1190369860.squirrel@webmail1.one.com> <46F3A0D7.5080406@unsane.co.uk> <8184.80.80.2.75.1190371765.squirrel@webmail1.one.com>
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nikolaj.thygesen@diamondbox.dk wrote:
>> nikolaj.thygesen@diamondbox.dk wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:03 +0400
>>>> Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:01:27PM +0200,
>>>>> nikolaj.thygesen@diamondbox.dk wrote:
>>>>>> Hi list,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you
>>>>>> do to get it back??
>>>>> I'd go one of these ways:
>>>>> - rm -rf /usr/local ...
>>>>> - rebuild all the packages I need in a chroot, then pkg_add them
>>>>>
>>> I have started portinstalling gnome2 with dependencies and no matter if
>>> I
>>> manually build cdrtools or cdrtools-cjk the machine always wants to
>>> build
>>> the other one :( As they can't coexist, what can I do to make the
>>> "portinstall -R gnome2" work?? I have (ab)used pkgdb in every
>>> conceivable
>>> way and done "portupgrades -o" back and forth, but nothing helps. I'm
>>> currently out of ideas. There must be a way - right??
>>>
>> Does the ALT_PKGDEP section of /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf help ?
>>
>> (from UPDATING)
>> Example of ALT_PKGDEP section:
>> ALT_PKGDEP = {
>> 'www/apache13' => 'www/apache13-modssl',
>> 'print/ghostscript-afpl' => 'print/ghostscript-gnu',
>> }
>>
>> This should let you specify in pkgtools.conf
>>
>> ALT_PKGDEP = {
>> 'sysutils/cdrtools' => 'sysutils/cdrtools-cjk',
>
>
> The above entry is already there. Do I need to do anything in particular
> to reinforce it??
>
Not as far as i know, (the only substitution i have in there works fine.)
If your syntax is ok, and you dont have sysutils/cdrtools installed
already which would probably confuse it, it should just work. If not
then you might have to ask someone with more portupgrade-fu than me.
Vince
>
>> }
>>
>> so any dependancies on cdrtools will be rewritten to use cdrtools-cjk
>>
>>
>> Vince
>
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