From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 07:25:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6275116A420 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:25:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BC543D46 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:25:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so406107nzo for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:25:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OWIp7ZPqodc9jZHaO6z/0UclsC/oKu2czVtX63U9PK7i5i3co8tERYiLrDk6u1LR2DGNkgfs5lkz2o6rCzk2pNT5Txq26MSGbpBOWIIfwatyxU6KwjPkCYI5R99jii8LCVKX3nOob+FDmcJAaOEgpZoXYAWZiTOe4rF3al7gl3M= Received: by 10.36.220.11 with SMTP id s11mr1283356nzg; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:25:14 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: "Michael C. Shultz" In-Reply-To: <200510271904.17908.ringworm01@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <0E2AAC01-B12D-4A7A-A986-B7A57DDDEDFF@secure-computing.net> <200510271904.17908.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: Eric F Crist , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, John DeStefano Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies 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: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:25:15 -0000 On 10/28/05, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:49, Eric F Crist wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:32 PM, John DeStefano wrote: > > > On 10/27/05, Andrew P. wrote: > > >> On 10/27/05, John DeStefano wrote: > > >>> After clearing out the ports, updating ports (with portsnap) and > > >>> source, and rebuilding the system and kernel... it seemed the > > >>> ultimate > > >>> problem was actually a dependency of the package to apache1.3. > > >>> After I > > >>> ran 'pkgdb -F' and "fixed" this dependency to point to apache2.1, > > >>> but > > >>> I still had trouble installing ports. > > > > At this point, what usually works for me is to: > > > > #cd /usr && rm -rf ./ports > > > > #mkdir ./ports && cvsup /root/ports-supfile > > > > The above will delete your ENTIRE ports tree, provided it's kept in / > > usr/ports and as long as you use cvsup (and your ports supfile is / > > root/ports-supfile as mine is). When a whole bunch of ports stop > > working, I find this is the easiest thing to do. > > > > The other thing I do is run a cron job every week that updates, via > > cvsup, the ports tree. About once a year I perform the above, mostly > > to clean out the crap. Re-downloading your entire ports tree will be > > quicker if you don't use the ports-all tag and actually define which > > port segments you are interested in. For example, there's no real > > reason to download all the x11/kde/gnome crap if you're doing this on > > a headless server that isn't going to serve X. > > > > HTH > > Replacing /usr/ports won't fix his problems, they reside in /var/db/pkg. > I may be a bit biased but I reaaly think John D. should try running > portmanager -u (ports/sysutils/portmanager). Stale dependencies is a non > issue for portmanager. > > -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.o= rg" > I don't think that stale dependencies are an issue for portupgrade as well, just add "-O" to the command- line.