Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 21:35:58 -0800 From: John W <jwdevel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: fixing up port dependencies Message-ID: <fa8771801002012135vf917e54nc4c23edab2c9de24@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello all,
I'm going through a round of port upgrades and came upon a dependency issue.
I could probably muscle through and make it work, but I'd like to know
what people see as a "correct" solution to this problem. I'm still in
the process of grokking the nitty-gritty bits of ports.
Here's the issue:
I updated my ports tree with csup, and tried to run 'portmaster -na'.
It gave me this:
===>>> The mail/p5-Email-Simple-Creator port has been deleted:
Folded into p5-Email-Simple package
Ok, that makes sense. But what do I do to fix it?
It seems I need to replace dependencies on p5-Email-Simple-Creator
with dependencies on p5-Email-Simple.
But if I manually do that, won't my changes be blown away the next
time I update ports?
Perhaps I should use the '-o' (origin) option of portmaster? I'm not
100% sure how that works, incidentally.
I assume something like:
portmaster -o p5-Email-Simple p5-Email-Simple-Creator
Will those changes get blown away by the next update of ports?
Is the most correct solution just to wait until all maintainers of
ports which depend on p5-Email-Simple-Creator each update their
makefiles to depend on p5-Email-Simple, instead? (Though that doesn't
help in the short term :)
I'm curious of people's thoughts on this.
Thanks
-John
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