From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 17 14:11: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87F837B400; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6609E43E64; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from sdn-ar-004dcwashp025.dialsprint.net ([206.133.21.137] helo=moo.holy.cow) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Uw4W-0007dE-00; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:10:57 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3CCB850DF6; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:13:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:13:37 -0400 From: parv To: f-ports , f-q Subject: pkg_add problem w/ slightly old dependencies Message-ID: <20020717211337.GA9000@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: f-ports , f-q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (mutt-devel port is just an example below; it happens w/ any other port in similar scenario.) i installed mutt-devel & created a mutt-1.5.1 package. after de installing it and trying to do pkg_add, i get the following error... # pkg_add ./mutt-devel-1.5.1.tgz pkg_add: could not find package libslang-1.4.5 ! pkg_add: could not find package libiconv-1.8 ! pkg_add: could not find package gettext-0.11.2 ! pkg_add: could not find package expat-1.95.3 ! pkg_add: could not find package cyrus-sasl-1.5.27_4 ! ...though i don't have those particular ports installed, i sure do have the ports which come darn close to the list... libslang-1.4.3 libiconv-1.7.0.1 gettext-0.11.1_3 expat-1.95.2 cyrus-sasl-1.5.27_2 ...it is not easy or practical to always upgrade the installed ports whenever pkg_add fails. the only choice, if there is one, that remains is of re-building & re-installing the port. is there a way to workaround the problem w/o the rebuild/reinstall process so that pkg_add would work w/ already installed ports? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message