From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 08:03:33 2003 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 6902016A4B3 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1948F43FF5 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:03:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C68224444; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:00:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.133 ([10.202.2.133] helo=smtp.us2.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:00:50 -0400 Received: by smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 0671276EA1; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:00:50 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Jud" To: "Kent Stewart" , "K Anderson" Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:00:49 -0400 X-Epoch: 1064588450 X-Sasl-enc: uGNKkIxxg7D7tPYpRnumdg References: <00df01c38185$2255aee0$5864a8c0@patience> <200309260732.43942.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200309260732.43942.kstewart@owt.com> Message-Id: <20030926150050.0671276EA1@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Ports woes. 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, 26 Sep 2003 15:03:33 -0000 On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:32:43 -0700, "Kent Stewart" said: > On Thursday 25 September 2003 04:12 pm, K Anderson wrote: > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > On Monday 22 September 2003 08:45 pm, cuddlesomebunny wrote: > > >>Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports? > > >> > > >>I am using FreeBSD 5.x-p2 and I am using ports and am having one > > >> hell of a time installing things. > > >> > > >>Here's what is happeng. > > >> > > >>I go to install ports and if it needs to get a dependency it goes > > >> and fetches it and becomes the usual compile process. Except that > > >> the dependency might already be installed with the exact version > > >> required and so most of the time the ports error out telling me I > > >> need to make deinstall on some dependency then make reinstall on > > >> it. [snip] > > >>I tried using the portupgrade stuffs but that just seems to make > > >>things worse overall. > > >> > > >>Anybody got any hints as to why it seems ports is having these > > >> sorts of problems? > > > > > > I don't have any idea what you problem is; however, there is an > > > ongoing discussion on -current with people having port problems. > > > What I remember is that the freeze has them locked and they can't > > > patch the ports to build and install on -current until the port > > > freeze is over. You might be caught by this problem or something > > > entirely different. I'm obviously getting into this very late, but I'll hazard a couple of suggestions. Apologies if they've already been discussed/discarded. 1. If you haven't already, run portsdb -uU and pkgdb -F. 2. If it isn't among the "portupgrade stuff" you've already tried, the -fRN options in combination may work. Jud