From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 21:11:23 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 5D71616A423 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:11:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130D943D45 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:11:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jAELBGBJ004187 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:11:16 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:11:21 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <4378EA8A.4080403@nieser.net> <4378F5EC.5030500@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4378F5EC.5030500@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511141311.21289.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: ports db a mess after portsnap fetch/update 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, 14 Nov 2005 21:11:23 -0000 On Monday 14 November 2005 12:39 pm, Hans Nieser wrote: > Hans Nieser wrote: > .> Hi list, > > > [... huge complaint about stale dependencies ...] > > My apologies, in my frustration I sent this out without properly > investigating, seems all I had to do was install the ports mentioned > in the pkgdb output about the stale dependencies and run pkgdb -F > again to fix it for me. > > I'm still kind of wondering how it got that way, but at least I got > it all fixed again without having to do anything drastic like > pkg_deinstall * _______________________________________________ You can manually build the missing ones. You don't need to deinstall the port with the stale dependancy. I think portupgrade checks first and then tells you to do the -F update. I hit this area at various stages of the gnome_update. The script deleted ports and then died before they were added back. The database then had loose ends and wanted you to fix them with the -F. The -recover option worked most of the time and that was good enough, most of the time :). The other 3 or 4 times, I did a manual build of the missing port. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html