From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 13 21:06:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700BA106566B for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:06:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: from heechee.tobez.org (heechee.tobez.org [194.255.56.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3730A8FC1A for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:06:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5B2FE6D400; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:06:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:06:06 +0200 From: Anton Berezin To: David Southwell Message-ID: <20090413210606.GB32280@heechee.tobez.org> References: <200904131106.19314.david@vizion2000.net> <20090413181738.GA10328@heechee.tobez.org> <200904131345.02102.david@vizion2000.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200904131345.02102.david@vizion2000.net> X-Powered-By: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stale-Dependency problem after upgrade to 10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:06:07 -0000 On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 01:45:01PM -0700, David Southwell wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2009 11:17:38 Anton Berezin wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:06:19AM -0700, David Southwell wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this one: > > > > > > Stale dependency: bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 -> perl-5.8.9_2 (lang/perl5.8): > > > can't convert nil into string > > > > > > > > > My update to 10 seems to be OK except for this.. > > > > > > I have tried pkgdb -fF > > > Tried pkg_deinstall bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 > > > > > > Obviously I do not know what I am meant to do with this!! > > > > Er, pkg_deinstall did not work? Try pkg_delete and then pkgdb -fF. > > HI > > Thanks sorry I should have mentioned I tried that and got: > [root@dns1 /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15]# pkg_delete bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc > pkg_delete: no such package 'bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc' installed Actually, pkg_delete wants a full package name or a pattern, so it should be either pkg_delete bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 or pkg_delete bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-\* \Anton. -- There is no beauty in entropy. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky