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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2003 02:59:49 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Dorin H <bj93542@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: defunct metacity-setup haunts my dependency list of gnome2
Message-ID:  <1069747189.98733.61.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031125075342.61568.qmail@web12603.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20031125075342.61568.qmail@web12603.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 02:53, Dorin H wrote:
>   What is the correct way to solve the dependency
> problem in this case?
> =20
>  cvsup 2003.11.24, 11:00PM EDT (no refuse); make
> index; portsdb -u
>=20
> portversion -R gnome2=20
>=20
> shows a pesky dependency to metacity-setup. There is
> no folder for the port, no package installed,=20
> portupgrade fails. I tried the the process twice.
>=20
> Variations: I installed the package (pkg_add), but no
> change (the port files are still missing and there is
> only an empty package on FreeBSD ports webpage...). I
> remove the package, nothing.  Tried with pkgdb -F,
> failed each attempt.
>=20
> Finally, the solution:
> manually change the +CONTENTS file from=20
> /var/db/pkg/gnome2-2.2.0/ to comment out the damn
> metacity-setup dependency...
>=20
> For the future, what would the the correct solution to
> troubleshot this?

pkg_deinstall -fO metacity-setup

Then, run pkgdb -F, and delete the dependency.

Joe

>=20
> Thank you,
> /Dorin.=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
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