From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 20:13:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3321106564A for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:13:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43AC18FC17 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so827110fgg.35 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:13:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=wdwiIx7Hi6gP92+XR6RVH+1RTjk9vSHmAyblYxGKYcA=; b=rHc8u2B4qCnp6liS3dgbZWtV9Gyw8BMBnH/1P3T8RTR6OSdPhEp3J92kp37COIln09zVC2Rzr7ZguNvX2rcA+wAjjNQs+1FppL7mQ37a7Cy4MAviMxvi4YliG241PiZn7LKMdhUZDaDMTFAj2RST4kbZ2h/8H+EmKTpmCEfVRiI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=VTiRktSI8ZkuYSIDOVjDrBVWR0Rbevm/iqh4XcGObIMUwkIXUXthRaL70+geiqAmZF4T9TMKc4zPV8gd6AUKng8PFRgiCR8xGOx5vLtQyKF7HOwI8iqoSua75dBwmfknE8jXTpLow4rE8bfQNVclwI7LXye0HRnggTKj1i4+rp4= Received: by 10.86.79.19 with SMTP id c19mr2959376fgb.31.1206821631381; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.26.8 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0803291313h6548213ew7497dd8eea1d3e82@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:13:51 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" To: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0803291313v2e1f237ejd414d617603e93b6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <47EBDAB2.1050107@chuckr.org> <20080329095433.GA9758@holstein.holy.cow> <47EE6B0A.8010207@chuckr.org> <7d6fde3d0803291313v2e1f237ejd414d617603e93b6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Fwd: using pkgdb X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:13:53 -0000 On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Chuck Robey wrote: > > Parv wrote: > > in message <47EBDAB2.1050107@chuckr.org>, > > wrote Chuck Robey thusly... > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> I'm using pkgdb because I wanted to try portupgrade, and it > >> required it. > > > > portupgrade does not require pkgdb. pkgdb is part of portupgrade; > > portupgrade installs pkgdb. > > I don't doubt that, but portupgrade itself tossed out the instruction to > me to > run pkgdb -F, to fix something (I don't know what). I didn't just want to > run > something which has such a confusing man page. I ran it under > instructions, and > now it's asking me questions which I can't figure out the effects of any > of the > offered actions will be. > > Everyone seems to want to toss me hazy hints instead of what those options > actually accomplish; I'm beginning to think that the only folks who are > answering are the folks who don't really know the answer. > > > > > > > - Parv > > > y => yes, I want the stale dependency to map to the proposed one. n => no, that proposed replacement is pure poppycock. a => who knows... [the Ruby code doesn't make sense for my virgin eyes -- I only do shell scripts, Perl, and some TCL :)..] The line of referring to is /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb:646. -Garrett