From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 20 02:32:39 2005 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 D3C6616A425 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:32:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0842043D49 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:32:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.130.188] (port=58398 helo=smtp3.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Edf0P-0003va-VR; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 03:32:37 +0100 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:54337 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp3.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Edf0O-0002Gm-Q7; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 03:32:36 +0100 From: Danny Pansters To: plcplc@gmail.com Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 03:30:32 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200511191137.45598.plcplc@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511191137.45598.plcplc@gmail.com> X-Face: :N, f2_*44g[tRY8Y-gL2zi`G|<6SpFjTeHt|V5LO6Yl2E7yAfEh{E6-8pqxUFX"l)=?utf-8?q?Nm8y=7E=0A=09IWJSAWQ=7D+=3DpP=7CT=5D?=@sy1sz%h)*CW6gtbp]"fe@MjICtIUo.0, CH~{[R4PXSyL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511200330.33226.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portssystem stale dependencies 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: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:32:40 -0000 On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: > .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package > system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given > port/package without having met all the dependencies.. just how does it > _forget_ that it just installed some package?.. It doesn't forget but it does submit. These are tools that come with portupgrade. During pkgdb -F you can always delete (CTRL+D) any dependency you don't like. Just force it if you have to. Almost always it comes from having a certain combination of ports installed where an actual update by version by one port doesn't really matter but the portupgrade system has it registered and so thinks it may do so. In other cases it just may or may not matter but usually you're running a portupgrade -a anyway so it'll be settled when done. In other cases if something's left behind or broken or so, deleting the dependency (and perhaps it's picked pu again later at your portupgrading) will be fine also. Just delete the pkgdb -F problem deps :) Dan