From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 31 03:55:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C37B1065670 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:55:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from opti.dougb.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF6F14DE46; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:55:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <50175733.60902@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:55:31 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120728 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Shterenlikht References: <201207302118.q6ULI6V1090317@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <201207302118.q6ULI6V1090317@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: after pkg-config -> pkgconf update lots of packages show missing dependency on devel/pkg-config X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:55:32 -0000 On 07/30/2012 14:18, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I did portmaster -o devel/pkgconf devel/pkg-config > as advised. Now doing "portmaster --check-depends" > returns 235 ports with > "missing dependency: devel/pkg-config". > I thought the "-o" portmaster option is specifically > to update the dependencies list. Am I wrong? > Or is this not possible in this particular case? It certainly should have worked, yes. Are you using the latest portmaster? And can you tgz and send me your /var/db/pkg directory? > Anyway, I presume this is a benign warning, and > none of my 235 ports need to be rebuid, right? 'portmaster -y --check-depends' is the right answer here. The run dependency on pkg-config has always been bogus, it's just that we're only now working on fixing it. -- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. -- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)