From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 13:07:13 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 81D4B16A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:07:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (cromagnon.cullmail.com [67.33.58.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C10B43D45 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (localhost.cullmail.com [127.0.0.1]) i34KALub022489; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:10:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by cromagnon.cullmail.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i34KAFL0022174; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:10:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jamoore) From: Jay Moore To: Kent Stewart , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:10:08 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200404040153.11429.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <200404041421.40361.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <200404041227.58240.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200404041227.58240.kstewart@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404041510.10437.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> Subject: Re: ports hosed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 20:07:13 -0000 On Sunday 04 April 2004 02:27 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > > Bottom line here (in my case) is this: I'm afraid my ports tree may > > be BFU; this all started when I tried to install the "K3b" port which > > apparently has a bazillion dependencies. At least one of the tar.gz > > files couldn't be located, and things have kind of gone downhill from > > there :( For me, I'm afraid that salvation may require "wiping" > > the entire ports tree, and re-installing it from the 5.2 cd. Is > > there a safe & clean way to do that? > > It was the closest thing to openssl. There is what I think is a problem > with ports such as openssl. It is in the makefile to portupgrade but if > you do a make search, it doesn't show up. When you see an obvious link > problem like you saw, check if you have it installed. If you do/don't > just upgrade/install what is missing. Well, done is done... no way I can "back up", and re-visit questions that I've already answered incorrectly. And meanwhile my machine is still crunching forward with the last "portupgrade -a" that I did - this will likely continue for quite some time as it reports 211 ports (and this # keeps growing!) I believe I've lost control of the f**g thing... So - is there a way to go back to "ground zero"?... to just remove everything from the ports tree, and re-install from the 5.2 cd? Thanks, Jay