From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 15:56:53 2005 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 C3B2E16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:56:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out009.verizon.net (out009pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE4043D39 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:56:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reso3w83@verizon.net) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.84.7]) by out009.verizon.net ESMTP <20050125155652.IDHP24088.out009.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com>; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:56:52 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BC43B2CE74E; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:53:09 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <41F60A3F.7040908@myunix.net> <200501250627.33542.reso3w83@verizon.net> <41F6694A.9000600@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <41F6694A.9000600@cis.strath.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:53:07 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501250753.08740.reso3w83@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [4.26.84.7] at Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:56:52 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reparing FreeBSD ports tree. 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: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:56:53 -0000 On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:44 am, you wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:58 am, Christian Tischler wrote: > >>Hi everyone. > >>My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a > >>portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tree ist > >> all screwed up. There are tons of wrong/failed/whatever > >> dependencies and some ports wont work. > >>How can I repair this problem without an complete reinstall of the > >>system? I have a lot of services running for my local net and a > >> huge amount of configurations. > >>For exsample when I do /usr/ports/make index I get: > >>---------- > >># make index > >>Generating INDEX - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.5_5: > >>"/usr/ports/print/acroread5" non-existent -- dependency list > >>incomplete ===> print/apsfilter failed > >>*** Error code 1 > >>1 error > > > > In /usr/ports/MOVED, > > > > "print/acroread5|print/acroread|2004-12-23|last Acrobat Reader port > > remaining" > > > > which means this directory has been moved. > > > > My advice is to run sysutils/portmanager and NEVER ever run pkgdb > > -F if you want to keep your dependencies from getting messed up. > > > > portmanager will automatically remove your installed > > print/acroread5 because it has been removed from cvs, it does not > > use INDEX files so they will become a non issue for you as well. > > > > The only way to protect your "large amount of configurations" is > > to back them up! You never know when a port is going to over write > > a configuration file so if they are real important to you, back > > them up. > > > > -Mike > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Is portmanager now the generally accepted way of keeping your ports > updated? There are people who prefer portmanager, but many have never tried it and still recommend portupgrade. Here is a link with some information and comments about portmanager. http://bsdnews.com/index.php3?story_start=5 > Also, what's this "extract" thing I have seen mentioned in > relation to this? > > Chris What extract thing? Be more specific please. -Mike