Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:07:42 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> Subject: Re: Port upgrading - my way Message-ID: <415597CE.1050004@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040924232725.0f5d0380@209.152.117.178> References: <4154AEA4.5090208@makeworld.com> <C25FD1D7-0D97-11D9-9B5C-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20040924173912.06169ce0@209.152.117.178> <4154AEA4.5090208@makeworld.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20040924232725.0f5d0380@209.152.117.178>
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W. D. wrote: >At 23:11 9/24/2004, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > > >>W.D. it's your cron job I'm looking, so I'll talk about it. It would >>work, probably most of the time. Your example has both portsdb -Uu >>and make index in it. Just use one, otherwise you're building INDEX-5 >>twice. Running pkgdb -fu (by the way, make that -uf instead, I know >>it doesn't make any difference but I look at it and laugh too hard >>to think about anything else) >> >> > >Yeah, I guess we really want to un-eff the database, rather than >eff-up the database. ;^) > > > >>won't do the trick in the case were >>you've deleted something and the now missing dependencies were not >>taken care of. >> >> > >How would one know when this has occurred? > > Portupgrade's utilities will gripe at you, and not complete their assigned tasks (e.g., you type "portsdb -uU" and it returns something similar to "stale dependency: pkgfoo-2.1 -> pkgbar-3.2 run pkgdb manually to fix, or specify -F to force") >>You're going to have to do pkgdb -fF and manually >>remove the bad dependencies. >> >> > >I am clueless here. How would one do this if/when >it would happen. > > Y.A.C.A. (Yet Another Classic Article): http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html This time by Michael Lucas, and yes, it's older than the last, but the concepts are there to be found .... HTH, KDK
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