Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:33:14 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unintelligible questions from pkgdb -F [ part of 5.2portupgrade hairball ] Message-ID: <4074739A.9070007@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200404070344.14871.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> References: <200404052159.36889.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <20040406093904.GD17361@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200404070344.14871.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
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Jay Moore wrote: >On Tuesday 06 April 2004 04:39 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > >>What this means is that the eel2-2.4.1 port claims to have a >>dependency on the gtk-2.2.4_1 port, but no such port is installed -- >>it's listed in the file: >> >> > > <snipped some of Matthew's Amazing stuff> >Amazing! That makes sense... why, oh why isn't it in the man page for pkgdb? > >The rest of your response is most helpful also. I think rather than adding a >bunch of clutter here I'll follow up on each of them separately. > >Thanks, >Jay > > I doubt I can improve on Matthew's post (he is very helpful and knowledgeable), but I've found this to be helpful: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html In which Michael Lucas ("Absolute BSD") tells what to say to `pkgdb -F' .... HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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