From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 22 21:21:24 2004 Return-Path: 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 7CD1016A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:21:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A6643D1F for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:21:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:17:48 -0500 Message-ID: <41290E51.9080205@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:21:21 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Withers References: <20040821092242.55846.qmail@web51306.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040821092242.55846.qmail@web51306.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Aug 2004 21:17:49.0401 (UTC) FILETIME=[7A21AC90:01C4888D] cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: stale dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:21:24 -0000 Mark Withers wrote: >Hello everyone! > >I've been using FBSD for a few years now, but am not >sure as to what a 'stale dependency' is... > >I am receiving an error message with ymessenger pkg >that it has stale dependencies and to use 'pkgdb -F' >to fix or -O to force. > >I'm a bit inexperienced when it comes to repairing the >package db and would appreciate any pointers you can >give. > > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Pretty good explanation by Michael Lucas of "Absolute BSD" fame.... KDK