From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 9:45:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from westhost43.westhost.net (westhost43.westhost.net [216.71.84.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2BC37B405 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (burningclown@localhost) by westhost43.westhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5AGjx729638 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:46:00 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:45:58 -0500 (CDT) From: burningclown@westhost43.westhost.net To: freebsd-questions Subject: pkgdb and stale dependencies Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've been using a combination of pkgdb (called with -FuU as options) and portupgrade to keep my system up to date. Unfortunately I have usually done this in a fairly thoughtless manner, accepting the dependency resolutions offered by the system (which, in my defense, have usually seemed pretty reasonable). This doesn't seem to be working terribly well any more, and I'm wondering how to get the information I need to make intelligent decisions when pkgdb -FuU presents me with a choice such as the following: Stale dependency: arts_1.0.0_1 -> XFree86-libraries-4.2.0_1: XFree86-aoutlibs-3.3.6.9 (score: 44%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] If I hit Enter here, with the no default, I get New dependency? (? to help): And eventually wind up in a place where I have to make a decision between 400 odd packages. Winnowing out many of these is easy, but how best to resolve the dependency in question remains ... and stale dependencies are coming up a lot when I run pkgdb. Am I just missing something obvious? I welcome RTFM if someone will tell me which manual will help. ":) Thanks in advance for any help. Best, Glenn Becker +----------------+ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" +----------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message