Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:12:47 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andreas Davour <ante@update.uu.se> Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem Message-ID: <200404091212.47377.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404092042560.28354@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: <4076527F.1060902@users.sourceforge.net> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404092042560.28354@Tempo.Update.UU.SE>
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On Friday 09 April 2004 11:55 am, 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? Firefox depends on gtk-2.4.0, which depends on atk. All of these problems relate back to updating dependancies of glib-2.4.0. The question at this point is what you updated and the order. If you were starting out clean, a portupgrade -rR glib would have done most of this but I wouldn't bet money. I eventually did a -rf glib to get things built cleanly. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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