From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 17:30:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A5216A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:30:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8E443D58 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:30:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3027D23CBF for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:30:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:30:42 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 5Ccd0DBJuQ+vtd+F3nD+CRYZwQ1t0BOUZI2V1VaKoo2O 1134408641 Received: from gumby.localdomain (88-104-200-164.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com [88.104.200.164]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB795713C0 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:30:41 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:30:30 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200512110916.28583.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> <200512120210.17457.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <200512111954.34923.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200512111954.34923.kstewart@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512121730.31382.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Removing a port without upsetting dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:30:45 -0000 On Monday 12 December 2005 03:54, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 11 December 2005 06:10 pm, RW wrote: > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:46, Ian Moore wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the > > > mplayer-skins port as well. Then I got sick of dealing with the > > > skins port being broken a lot because the source files are often > > > unfetchable, so I removed the port (I can't remember what method I > > > used to do that now). > > > > A much better solution is to: > > > > cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins && make config > > > > then deselect everything, but the default skin. > > > > Since I did that I haven't had any problem with unfetchable skins. > > If you go into distfiles/mplayer and rm all of the files that are out of > date, you won't have any problem either. IIRC, the names haven't > changed but the MD5 and sizes have and it won't refetch them until you > remove them. The skins aren't broken. There is something slightly out > of whack with the Makefile. > > There may be an easier way but cd and rm * works just fine. I've deleted the skin distfiles on several occasions and it's never been anything more that a one-off fix to problems with mismatched checksums for me. All of the current files are datastamped 25-Mar-2005, so it's probably just the case that the mplayer maintainers have stopped messing with them. Occasional checksum problems can be down to the porter, but recurring problems are usually down to sloppy version control by the original maintainers. Also, if you look at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/ there is only one version of each skin which is probably why these things are sometimes unfetchable.