Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:15:56 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> Cc: Noah <admin2@enabled.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: difficulties remove stale dependency Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0707311415560.18226@hymn01.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46AFA376.5020900@crackmonkey.us>
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: > 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 Simply put, emacs is a trouble maker with all of the versions that are available in the source tree. I think that porters are working on improving the system in place. -Garrett
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