Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 09:16:21 +1030 From: Ian Moore <no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Removing a port without upsetting dependencies Message-ID: <200512110916.28583.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the mplayer-skins port as well. Then I got sick of dealing with the skins port being broken a lot because the source files are often unfetchable, so I removed the port (I can't remember what method I used to do that now). Ever since, when I do a portupgrade & mplayer or various ports that it is a dependency of get updated, my ports database gets upset because those ports are marked as having mplayer-skins as a stale dependency. For example, today I have: Stale dependency: mplayerplug-in-3.17 --> mplayer-skins-1.1.2_1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. I generally either delete the dependency or link it to mplayer-gtk-esound, but the dependency comes back next time mplayerplug-in gets updated. I assume I've just used the wrong method for deleting the mplayer-skins port & I need to re-install & delete it the correct way. If I'm right, how should I do that? If not, is there a way I can permanently remove the mplayer-skins port and not have it appear as a dependency of other ports? Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDm1rEPUlnmbKkJ6ARApIjAJ96kIhVkycALlVfqYTpLH7mIoq28wCbB4tD y+qqIfn2Um7WRQicRIy6o40= =1N+d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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