From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 12:00:48 2004 Return-Path: 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 377C416A4E6 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net (starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F395F43D76 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 20-74.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.20.74] helo=[192.168.63.10]) by starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1BC1Et-0001qE-00; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:00:31 -0700 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:01:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <4076527F.1060902@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404091401.20444.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b54b3a35ad307c4ef73df8440aaf30340350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: Andreas Davour Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:00:48 -0000 On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: > Hi! > > I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now, > having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to > stop some problems. > > Some ports have failed and been flagged as "configure error" or "install > error". Then I have tried to do a manual install of those ports and found > that a "make deinstall; make reinstall" have worked, just like the port > instructed me to do when it failed. I found it strange that portupgrade > didn't do that for me. > > Having done that I restarted portupgrade and it would proceed a bit before > stumbling to a halt again. > > Now I have reached the end of what I can fix manually, though. For some > reason portupgrade stubbornly complains that: > > "** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) > ! accessibility/atk (atk-1.4.1_1) (port directory error)" > > And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new > cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? > > Can I get the atk ports from somewhere? Is it really needed? Why has it > dissapeared and why is it still mentioned as a dependency then? > > If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't > get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested > in getting this to work. > > I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not > succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... > > Help? > > /andreas Did you remember to execute 'pkgdb -Uu' after cvsup and before portupgrade? Andrew Gould