From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 16 01:21:03 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 2044216A41F for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:21:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05B543D58 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:21:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so496220nzd for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:21:00 -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=F3fZNmB+MgkmSj9CZVtadiprooqSI51BbXGE7oDPxmH3o0I23++wVnHh00DRuzsk7Zotyx4X2aU0k5gtPy6EAk9A1KwRqpJMzD7mxmVvUU89suU60JSqU0LlA/IksuIzqd9eacKxV19S8f1hkNEBYXZ8vQvoY6InZBbN0tG6fAE= Received: by 10.36.148.2 with SMTP id v2mr5163061nzd; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:21:00 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: John DeStefano In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:21:03 -0000 On 10/16/05, John DeStefano wrote: > I'm trying to use portupgrade to update my installed ports. I ran into > trouble with dependencies with ImageMagick and xorg-libraries, and I then > followed the suggestion in UPDATING to delete XFree86 the imake-4 package= s, > and install the full xorg port. > > After all that, I got more dependency errors: > 'Stale dependency: aalib-1.4.r5_1 --> imake-4.3.0_1 -- manually run 'pkgd= b > -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.' > > 'pkgdb -O' returned an invalid option error, and 'pkgdb -o aalib-1.4.r5_1= ' > returned 'graphics/aalib'. I then ran 'pkgdb -F' to try and fix this (and > many, many other) stale dependencies, but the error I got when trying to = run > portupgrade afterward simply changed the stale dependency error to ' > aalib-1.4.r5_1 --> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6'. > > How does one get around these dependency errors without destroying a syst= em? > Any good resources on dealing with this? I keep reading that I should jus= t > run 'pkgdb -F' but that only gets one so far. > > Thanks, > ~John > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > If you don't have a whole free week, consider deinstalling every port on your system (with pkg_deinstall preferably), installing cvsup, updating your ports tree, installing portupgrade, and portinstalling all the ports you really need. That should only take a couple of days :-)