Date: 24 Jul 2003 20:21:56 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/54830: galeon2 port needs depends on nspr port Message-ID: <1059092516.86955.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030724232001.GB41087@numachi.com> References: <200307242106.h6OL6w55023946@freefall.freebsd.org> <20030724212936.GA279@numachi.com> <1059083225.298.43.camel@gyros> <20030724222424.GA34709@numachi.com> <1059086824.298.51.camel@gyros> <20030724232001.GB41087@numachi.com>
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--=-Ec4U345+Lq2JOjF/Ov2A Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 19:20, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 06:47:04PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 18:24, Brian Reichert wrote: > > > Ok, then why didn't 'portupgrade --new galeon2' cause my mozilla > > > port to be sufficiently upgraded, as to introduce nspr stuff? Am > > > I completely misunderstanding how dependancies are utilized within > > > the ports system? > >=20 > > There could be a number of reasons, but most like because an older > > version of Mozilla was already installed. >=20 > That doesn't answer my question, unfortunately. >=20 > If 'galeon2' (however indirectly) depends on nspr, why isn't that > knowledge encoded in the ports tree? Galeon doesn't depend on nspr. It depends on Mozilla which depends on an included version of nspr. >=20 > Either galeon2 depends on nspr, or it depends on a sufficiently new > mozilla, where 'sufficiently new' is defined as 'in turn depends > on nspr'. Something happened with your mozilla installation. I don't know what.=20 In any event, if you reinstall Mozilla, you should be fine. Joe >=20 > At least, that's what I've come to expect out of a dependancy-driven > system such that this... >=20 > > I like to do portupgrade -ra > > before adding nay new ports to the system because that way I'm sure > > everything is up-to-date. >=20 > I had in fact preceded this entire affair with 'portupgrade -ra'. >=20 > 'galeon', did install, but proved to be buggy. I noticed a 'galeon2' > port, so I installed _that_. That's when the bitching about > libplds4.so.1 began. >=20 > Hence, my PR, and our subsequent conversation. :) >=20 > >=20 > > Joe > >=20 --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-Ec4U345+Lq2JOjF/Ov2A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/IHgjb2iPiv4Uz4cRArTTAKCj2C9pH9ts/M2pWJACI4/NwFnI7ACfYprz NLeCS47UmjLksHN2bHxNf1k= =MyZu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ec4U345+Lq2JOjF/Ov2A--
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