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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:11:01 -0700
From:      vayu <vayu@sklinks.com>
To:        gerard@seibercom.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stale Dependencies ??????
Message-ID:  <673647A0-8589-421A-85A7-88D07625F825@sklinks.com>
In-Reply-To: <200606241241.52143.gerard@seibercom.net>
References:  <20060624162726.87232.qmail@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200606241241.52143.gerard@seibercom.net>

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On Jun 24, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote:

> On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:27, Robert Davison wrote:
>> I've recently had a few problems with KDE 3.5.1, so recently  
>> upgraded to
>> 3.5.3 via the ports. I have a port upgrade script which is  
>> producing the
>> following output when executed.
>>
>> Stale dependency: gconf2-2.14.0_2 --> openldap-client-2.2.30 --  
>> manually
>> run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. now upgrading the  
>> required
>> ports
>> Stale dependency: gconf2-2.14.0_2 --> openldap-client-2.2.30 --  
>> manually
>> run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
>>
>> Could someone please explain what is happening here. If I run  
>> pkgdb -F I
>> get the following output (pressing enter to accept the default)
>>


I've had the hardest time understanding what pkgdb asks.  This is the  
only article I've found which makes some sense to me:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1





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