Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:41:26 -0500 From: David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user error with pkgdb -F Message-ID: <200705251641.27578.daeg@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <18007.17322.650188.489798@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <200705251459.13919.daeg@houston.rr.com> <18007.17322.650188.489798@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Friday 25 May 2007 03:14:34 pm Robert Huff wrote: > David J Brooks writes: > > I screwed up... at the end of my portupgrade -a following the > > Xorg upgrade. kdemultimedia was left with one stale dependency, > > akode-plugins-jack. So I ran pkgdb -F to pull it in if it had > > somehow been missed. The script offered akode-plugins-xiph with a > > score of 77%. I checked the version numbers, and they matched, so > > I hit 'a' for all and instantly realized I had done the wrong > > thing. Now everything that was depending on the jack plugin wants > > xiph instead. Is there a less painful way to fix this than wiping > > the pkgdb and starting from scratch? > > Have you looked at the pkgdb man-page? I see at least one > thing ther I would be willing (after backing up pkgdb.db) to > experiment with. pkgdb -L does the trick. Thanks. :) David -- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it.
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