From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 14:26:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D8B4B16A401 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:26:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78CA543D4C for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:26:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:10809 helo=[192.168.1.33]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1FKcOE-000EBq-Qh; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:26:47 +0000 From: Kiffin Gish To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <44fylf4zq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1142683259.65675.6.camel@localhost> <44fylf4zq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:27:00 +0100 Message-Id: <1142692020.60337.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade woes ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:26:48 -0000 On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kiffin Gish writes: > > > I want to find out which ports need updating by running 'portupgrade > > -arR' "<". However, I am getting the following error message: > > > > Stale dependency: ImageMagick-6.2.5.5_3 --> lcms-1.14_1,1 -- manually > > run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. > > > > As suggested, I run 'pkgdb -F' and after a couple minutes, it seems to > > have fixed a number of problems. > > > > Rerunning portupgrade results in the same error as above. > > > > I tried rebuilding the port as follows: > > > > cd /usr/ports > > make fetchindex > > portsdb -u > > > > And then retrying the above, but this doesn;t help either. > > > > Help! How can I break out of this viscous circle and become a sane > > FreeBSD-er again?! > > What a sticky situation. > > First of all, I think you would do best right now to build your own > index. 'portsdb -uU' will take a while, but it will match exactly > what you have installed, which will probably help getting the > dependency comparisons correct. > > Also, run 'pkgdb -F' until it stops reporting problems. Thanks for the tip, but as luck has it, I just happened to figure out another (better?) solution. I simply de-installed ImageMagick using pkg_delete and then rebuilt it by doing a make install clean. And that worked, believe it or not! -- Kiffin Gish