Date: 03 Apr 2003 10:33:24 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade wants to upgrade ports that have been deinstalled Message-ID: <1049384004.56137.3.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> In-Reply-To: <20030403173821.V88690@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> References: <F4A253AA-652A-11D7-9BDE-000393CE1FDA@lost-angel.com> <20030403173821.V88690@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru>
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On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 05:38, Maxim M. Kazachek wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, sammy!! wrote: > >It seems my portsupgrade wants to update ports that I had thought had > >been uninstalled... I'm a little worried my pkgdb has become corrupt > >somehow. > > pkgdb -F should be your friend... It'll fix database It might not be corruption; just unexpected dependencies. For example, I encountered the following chain of dependencies at one point: gnucash -> eperl -> swig-devel -> php4 -> apache The fix IIRC was to configure swig-devel to not include PHP4 support. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]
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