From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 13 14:13:13 2005 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 8B0C216A4CE for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 14:13:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from host50a.simplicato.com (host50a.simplicato.com [207.99.47.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00FC343D41 for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 14:13:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gadfly@exitleft.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.simplicato.com [127.0.0.1]) by host50a.simplicato.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA546AEF60; Fri, 13 May 2005 10:13:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from host50a.simplicato.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (host50a.simplicato.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with SMTP id 48850-01; Fri, 13 May 2005 10:13:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [172.16.36.219] (unknown [216.37.114.8]) by host50a.simplicato.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEF86AEF03; Fri, 13 May 2005 10:13:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4284B5F6.5060308@exitleft.org> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:13:10 -0400 From: ravi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050311 Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lowell Gilbert References: <427A423E.30803@exitleft.org> <44ll6sdr71.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <427BDA02.9040106@exitleft.org> <44ekcj83yd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4283C4DE.1000706@exitleft.org> <448y2jz3vg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <448y2jz3vg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at simplicato.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-RELEASE Xorg switch question 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, 13 May 2005 14:13:13 -0000 On 05/13/05 08:50, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > ravi writes: >> On 05/07/05 11:12, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> > Hmm. Are you sure that you deleted the imake ports before building >> > X.Org? You shouldn't have stale imake dependencies from X.Org if you >> > rebuilt both. And the stale dependencies from other X ports should >> > get fixed up by pkgdb -F (which *will* require you to redirect the >> > dependencies, of course). >> >> w.r.t your last point, are you saying then that i have to: >> >> pkgdb ... -s /imake-4.../imake-6.../ >> pkgdb ... -s /XFree86-libraries-.../xorg-libraries-.../ >> etc >> >> or run 'pkgdb -F' and delete all the stale dependencies? (which i am >> guessing is a bad thing to do). > > If you run 'pkgdb -F', it should suggest redirecting the dependencies, > and it will probably suggest the correct new dependencies. But if you > really deleted all of the imake ports before building x.org, you > wouldn't have incorrect dependencies in the first place. > unfortunately, 'pkgdb -F' does not suggest the redirections. perhaps, as you seem to suspect ;-), i messed up (or plain forgot) the deletion of the imake ports. now that i am in the state i am in, would you consider it safe to run 'pkgdb -F' (or -s) and provide the xorg equivalents as replacements for the XFree86 ports? thank you, --ravi