Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:39:11 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade Stale dependency: "specify -O to force" Message-ID: <20040725123911.GC14398@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <410334FA.7020604@daleco.biz> References: <410332CF.5020900@yahoo.com> <410334FA.7020604@daleco.biz>
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:20:10PM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wro=
te:
> Rob wrote:
> >When I use commands from the portupgrade port, I get this message:
> >
> > Stale dependency: kde-3.2.3 --> autoconf-2.57_1 -- manually run
> > 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
> >
> >I wanted to use the '-O' option, but that does not seem to exist.
> >I've tried 'pkgdb -O' or 'pkgdb -FO'
> >
> >Is this '-O' suggestion mistake in the portupgrade port?
> >
> >How can I use the force option?
> Hmm, pretty sure that should be a little "o". At least that's
> what the help screen and the manpage seem to indicate...
>=20
> <kadmin@archangel> [/usr/ports]=20
> [23:16] =
=20
> % pkgdb --help
> pkgdb rev.1.69
>=20
> usage: pkgdb [-hafFQQquv] [-c pkgname] [-o pkgname] [-s=20
> /old_pkgname/new_pkgname/] [file ...]
>=20
> -h, --help Show this message
The message is a mite confusing. It means you should either run:
# pkgdb -F
to fix up the dependency records within /var/db/pkg before you run
portupgrade(1), or that you should run:
# portupgrade -O ...
to tell portupgrade to omit the dependency checks as it does its work.
The former is considerably preferable to the latter.
Cheers,
Matthew
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