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From: Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: difficulties remove stale dependency
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Noah wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> any clues on how to cure this situation.  It appears I am having 
> difficulties removing stale dependencies.
> 
> access1# portupgrade -a
> Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_2 <-- emacs-21.3_9 -- manually run 'pkgdb 
> -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
> access1# portupgrade -
> access1# pkgdb -F
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> access1# pkgdb -FO
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> access1# portupgrade -a
> Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_2 <-- emacs-21.3_9 -- manually run 'pkgdb 
> -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Noah

Hi Noah,

I get this a lot on one of my systems. Just that one - no idea why. 
Anyway, I find including option -O allows most things to ignore stale 
links, including portupgrade.

Oh - did you try installing portupgrade-devel and not portupgrade? That 
helped me out of a hole once and now I use it for everything.

HtH,
Adam J Richardson