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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:22:21 -0500
From:      LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: x11-fonts/gentium-basic port has been deleted preventing portmaster from completing upgrade
Message-ID:  <20251212182221.7bb860a8@dismail.de>
In-Reply-To: <aTyeJF5MFYKXD8ye@chthonixia>
References:  <aTyeJF5MFYKXD8ye@chthonixia>

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On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:58:44 -0500
"Joe A." <freebsd@chthonixia.net> wrote:

> List...
> 
> FreeBSD chthonixia 14.3-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p6 CHTHONIXIA
> amd64
> 
> Today, I attempted to run portmaster -a which fell over with this
> error:
> 
> ===>>> The x11-fonts/gentium-basic port has been deleted:
> Has expired: Superceeded by
> Gentium-7.000 https://software.sil.org/gentium/download/ ===>>>
> Aborting update
> 
> I can't deinstall it, because it's deleted; 'pkg delete' fails; and
> reinstalling gentium/ in ports failed to remedy the issue.
> 
> Has anyone seen this? Or is it 'just me'? I'm not sure who the
> maintainer was (port deleted so duh), so haven't asked either of the
> two possible people... and so am checking here.
> 
> To be clear: I can't run portmaster -a past "x11-fonts/gentium-basic"
> but portmaster by individual port works...and no idea what is after
> x11-fonts/gentium-basic.
> 
> I don't see any flags to portmaster to 'keep going ignore errors';
> and no bug reports so it's probably just me.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe A.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Now we have Gentium-7.000 and GentiumPlusCompact.-6.200. In
/usr/ports/UPDATING they didn't mention about Gentium port.



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