From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 14:53:52 2002 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 ECDC237B401; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C7E43E75; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (8779ebd5566fd36a834a773d40db890d@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8KLsCho002891; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8KLsCI4002890; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:54:12 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Kevin Oberman Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, FreeBSD Questions , knu@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade of portupgrade fails with "The port directory for 'sysutils/pkg_tarup' does not exist" Message-ID: <20020920215412.GZ208@vectors.cx> References: <1032558121.98354.30.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020920214957.684725D04@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020920214957.684725D04@ptavv.es.net> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well, technically, all you need to do is pkg_deinstall -f pkg_tarup-\*, as that will remove the portupgrade dependency, which is only a stale leftover anyhow. you're correct that portupgrade won't handle stuff just disappearing, but that's what pkgdb -F is there for. pkgdb's Fixit mode is VERY powerful, but rather confusing to use. -Adam >> (09.20.2002 @ 1449 PST): Kevin Oberman said, in 0.7K: << > pkg_tarup is gone as a port. The easiest way to fix this is to: > 1. pkg_delete -f pkg_tarup-\* > 2. pkg_delete portupgrade -\* > 3. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade > 4. make install clean > 5. pkgdb -F > > That should do the trick. portupgrade does not really handle the > removal of dependencies when the depended package simply goes away, > even when they are dependencies of portupgrade, itself. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "Re: portupgrade of portupgrade fails with "The port directory for 'sysutils/pkg_tarup' does not exist"" from Kevin Oberman << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message