Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:51:48 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought on Portmaster -Faf and deleted ports Message-ID: <20131015125148.2950a2c8@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20131014233539.56016.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> References: <20131013200236.7874.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310132302220.82895@wonkity.com> <20131014174833.58154.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310141426160.89896@wonkity.com> <20131014233539.56016.qmail@irelay.ssr.com>
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On 14 Oct 2013 23:35:39 -0000 Scott Ballantyne wrote: > Actually, the last time I updated my ports was when I installed 9.0, > and I used the portmaster 'nuke all ports' method I was trying to > day. Since then, several dozen ports of been 'deleted' or 'renamed', > not just the linux_base-fc4 I do something similar, but often I go through the port list and delete any ports that I no longer need and anything I don't remember installing directly. This allows the reinstall to find up-to-date dependency origins. If any of the remaining ports are missing you'll have to choose different ports or do without. In your case I suggest that you also check make.conf for anything like PERL_VERSION etc that might be forcing older dependencies. I'd also take the opportunity to go to pkgng either by upgrading to 10-stable or setting WITH_PKGNG=YES in make.conf. If you update to 10 while all the ports are deinstalled it will avoid your having reinstall them again later.
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