Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:54:06 -0400 From: John DeStefano <john.destefano@gmail.com> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies Message-ID: <f2160e0d0510171754v1b8afbfcg1d7717da0cdfff10@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510151821u7f57301ej40baac1ee7bcc08@mail.gmail.com> References: <f2160e0d0510151746n28cdbb25s2150337c0c6f7cfc@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420510151821u7f57301ej40baac1ee7bcc08@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/15/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/16/05, John DeStefano <john.destefano@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to use portupgrade to update my installed ports. I ran into > > trouble with dependencies with ImageMagick and xorg-libraries, and I th= en > > followed the suggestion in UPDATING to delete XFree86 the imake-4 packa= ges, > > and install the full xorg port. > > > > After all that, I got more dependency errors: > > 'Stale dependency: aalib-1.4.r5_1 --> imake-4.3.0_1 -- manually run 'pk= gdb > > -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.' > > > > 'pkgdb -O' returned an invalid option error, and 'pkgdb -o aalib-1.4.r5= _1' > > returned 'graphics/aalib'. I then ran 'pkgdb -F' to try and fix this (a= nd > > many, many other) stale dependencies, but the error I got when trying t= o run > > portupgrade afterward simply changed the stale dependency error to ' > > aalib-1.4.r5_1 --> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6'. > > > > How does one get around these dependency errors without destroying a sy= stem? > > Any good resources on dealing with this? I keep reading that I should j= ust > > run 'pkgdb -F' but that only gets one so far. > > > > Thanks, > > ~John > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > If you don't have a whole free week, consider > deinstalling every port on your system (with > pkg_deinstall preferably), installing cvsup, > updating your ports tree, installing portupgrade, > and portinstalling all the ports you really need. > That should only take a couple of days :-) > You're not kidding... between fixing these dependencies, trying to upgrade the ports, fixing more dependencies, upgrading ports, etc. ad nausem, I'm literally on my 9th straight day (obviously I don't mean 24/7... I have a day job and something of a life) of trying to get through this process. And all this just because I wanted to install mbstring (so phpMyadmin would stop barking about it), and I needed to perform some "simple updates" first... Any pointers, alternatives, etc., would be appreciated. BTW, I can no longer automatically update my ports list (I mean with 'portsdb -Uu' instead of fetching a premade index) due to a "chinese/acroread-chsfont failed" error. I see via Google that this port was removed due to a "security vulnerability", but I don't know how to remove it from my system, and UPDATING doesn't seem to mention it. Help? Thanks, ~John
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