Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:49:28 -0500 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portmanager loop? Message-ID: <e679320b908f4bc836edd96bc86ea993@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <200501260740.48847.reso3w83@verizon.net> References: <E2ABBBEA-6EE2-11D9-A5D5-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> <002c01c5038a$b9e28ed0$0201a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> <8F131149-6F9F-11D9-A3AB-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> <200501260740.48847.reso3w83@verizon.net>
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On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > Thanks Bart for your patience, this one required me to set up > XFree86-4 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine and back date all of the ports. Perfectly understandable and I thank you for the efforts you're going through to get portmanager updated so quickly. > So > now I know that on December 1st, 2004 /usr/ports/graphics/xfree86-dri > and /usr/ports/graphics/dri both existed and both report their name > as dri-5.0.2,2 on that date. This caused portmanager to loop > so I have duplicated the problem which means it can be fixed. > > I still need to move the ports forward to the current date before > I have a certain fix but right now I think the quick work around will > be > to go into each of these directories (graphics/dri and > graphics/xfree86-dri) and manually de-install them. Then let > portmanager pull back in the correct one. That worked > for the ports as they existed on December 1st, 2004 but I still > need to verify it works for the current date. So for a quick fix at the moment, I should just go into /usr/ports/graphics/dri and /usr/ports/graphics/xfree86-dri and run "make deinstall", then run "portmanager -u" and it should install the proper version for the dependancies, correct? Thanks again! -Bart
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