Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:18:06 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgdb -F issues Message-ID: <20040405111806.GA68885@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200404052024.40022.bastill@adam.com.au> References: <200404052024.40022.bastill@adam.com.au>
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On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:24:40PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> Before a fairly major system upgrade I have done "portsdb -Uu" and=20
> "pkgdb -F". Next step, upgrade portupgrade, which entails doing smart=20
> things to also painlessly upgrade to ruby 1.8. BUT ..
>=20
> I must have misunderstood what pkgdb requires when it asks about stale=20
> dependencies because at the penultimate stage:
> #portupgrade -f lang/ruby18
> Stale dependency: ruby-1.8.1_2 --> openssl-0.9.7d -- manually run 'pkgdb=
=20
> -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
>=20
> I had already DONE pkgdb -F :-(
> Tried pkgdb -Fu, which rebuilt the database, but it made no difference.
> Incidentally there IS no "O" option for pkgdb listed in the docs.
>=20
> Looked diligently for detailed guidance on pkgdb (Complete FBSD 3rd &=20
> 4th Eds, Handbook, man page, FBSD Diary) but found nothing very=20
> helpful. The Diary " As near as I can tell, this is more art than=20
> science." and "Or you can just "know". were MOST discouraging. :-(
>=20
> Can someone please point me in the right direction?
> Thanks.
Well, the dependency on openssl-0.9.7d indicates you've installed
openssl via ports. Perhaps. However, openssl-0.9.7d was imported
into 4-STABLE over the weekend, and it's been in 5-CURRENT for a
couple of weeks. Which means that if you're going to be updating to
the latest 4-STABLE you can delete any openssl port[*] you've got
installed and also delete that dependency.
You can also delete that dependency if you've never installed openssl
=66rom ports and have no intention of doing so -- so long as you're up
to date with the security patches, you'll be running a version of
openssl with all of the known holes patched, even if it doesn't carry
absolutely the latest version number.
Otherwise, you should be able to just update the security/openssl port
(which will get you openssl-0.9.7d nowadays) and everything will be
back to normal.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] Lest this leads to much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I should
stress here that you'll also have to recompile any ports that link
against the OpenSSL shlibs so that they pick up the shlibs from the
base system.
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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