From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 5 10:04:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8C216A4EA for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:04:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donovan@dmpnet.org) Received: from mazar.dmpnet.org (mazar.dmpnet.org [87.127.11.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F3213C4A8 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:04:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donovan@dmpnet.org) Received: from DonovansLaptop (ibm-laptop.dmpnet.org [192.168.67.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mazar.dmpnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D68D48C6 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:04:02 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <000c01c81f93$344c2c40$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop> From: "Donovan R. Palmer" To: References: <20071105135017.76a2c48a@meijome.net> <20071105070952.50ba2f37@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:04:06 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Subject: portupgrade questions 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: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:04:29 -0000 Hi Gang, A total noob here with FreeBSD, but am liking it so far. I went to run portupgrade for the first time and encountered quite a few problems. I have googled around and found some of my answers, but it's been slow going. For example: cairo# portupgrade -aF cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/gnu-autoconf ** Package 'gnu-autoconf' has been removed from ports tree. So one possibility I read to fix something like this is to uninstall and resintall it. This yields the following result: cairo# pkg_info | grep gnu-autoconf gnu-autoconf-2.59 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms cairo# pkg_deinstall gnu-autoconf-2.59 ---> Deinstalling 'gnu-autoconf-2.59' pkg_delete: package 'gnu-autoconf-2.59' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: gnu-automake-1.9.6 kde-3.5.4 kdevelop-3.3.4 ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! gnu-autoconf-2.59 (pkg_delete failed) ---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed So how do I fix this? Is there a HOW-TO or tutorial on a webpage out there that will help me learn how to fix these things? The handbook makes no mention of how to resolve these issues... unless I missed something? TIA Donovan