From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 14:36:09 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 ACC3D16A44B for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:36:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john.destefano@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDAD43D5C for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:36:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john.destefano@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t14so259087wxc for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:36:07 -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=e87X+CsYqX1o9Hwca7NlWp9nFpiPOqKHLmv1pgZpgq4wGU0YDA9UvI88zpalSkQoeACPTrN4FN0qY7gp28yOX0gDOqNNuIFhcOegvAiPjAm1AocX4bLIzAT8WIb0Tsct0l8DfuYxWuYWyO0hDt70PQ30UAkUq0RdYghZWRSFoNc= Received: by 10.65.239.16 with SMTP id q16mr89008qbr; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:53:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.154.4 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:53:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:53:49 -0400 From: John DeStefano 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 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 14:36:09 -0000 On 10/27/05, 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 Biased indeed. ;) I tried it, and it did work for some ports, but not all. Here's the report output of a second run-through: status report finished =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D percentDone-=3D>16 =3D 100 - ( 100 * ( QTY_outOfDatePortsDb-=3D>10 / TOTAL_outOfDatePortsDb-=3D>12 ) ) checkForOldDepencies 0.3.0_0 skip: apsfilter-7.2.6 has a dependency acroread-5.08 that needs to be updated first upgrade 0.3.0_0 info: ignoring scrollkeeper-0.3.12_1,1, reason: failed during (2) make upgrade 0.3.0_0 info: ignoring cups-pstoraster-7.07, reason: failed during (2) make checkForOldDepencies 0.3.0_0 skip: eog2-2.2.1 has a dependency scrollkeeper-0.3.12_1,1 that needs to be updated first checkForOldDepencies 0.3.0_0 skip: apsfilter-7.2.6 has a dependency acroread-5.08 that needs to be updated first upgrade 0.3.0_0 info: ignoring emacs-21.3, reason: failed during (2) make upgrade 0.3.0_0 info: ignoring gconf-editor-2.4.0,1, reason: performed (6) emergancy restore upgrade 0.3.0_0 info: ignoring apache-2.0.48, reason: failed during (2) mak= e checkForOldDepencies 0.3.0_0 skip: gnomeuserdocs2-2.0.6_1 has a dependency scrollkeeper-0.3.12_1,1 that needs to be updated first upgrade 0.3.0_0 info: ignoring acroread-5.08, reason: marked FORBIDDEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ update of ports collection complete with either some errors, ignored ports or both