From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 2 22:35:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9780516A417 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:35:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7261A13C45D for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:35:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C4051925 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:35:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 23:35:33 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070802233533.076e0754@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20070802204337.GA7540@laptop.swehack.se> References: <20070802204337.GA7540@laptop.swehack.se> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: portupgrade 'upgrades' ports that are not installed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:35:37 -0000 On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:43:37 +0200 User Nocturnal wrote: > Hi > > First of all i just went through the UPDATING instructions to upgrade > my xorg to 7.2. It did not go very well because i can't finish the > upgrade process. When i try to pkg_delete xorg-manpages it says > they're required by the xorg-6.9 port. When UPDATING tells you to delete something use pkg_delete -f > > Also i'm not sure where to go for help with portupgrade but here > seems like a good place to start. > > Now after i've run portupgrade -aP for the first time i tried to run > it again just to see what it missed because i can't say the process > progressed without errors, there were tons of them. Though this time > i starts with a port i don't even have installed, gutenprint-base. > > It does not exist in /var/db/pkg, pkg_info doesn't find it and i > can't make deinstall in the ports metadir because it's not installed. > Yet portupgrade insists on 'upgrading' it by installing it for me. > I'm thinking maybe it's a dependency of some newly upgraded port but > i don't know how to make portupgrade show me that information. --- This is what happens when you use portupgrade -P, you lose control over dependencies, although you might actually need gutenprint, I rarely print anything these days so I'm a bit out of touch.