Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:57:39 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gv port builds but fails - needing libpng.so.4 (?) Message-ID: <20011126125739.A17576@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111260839020.1856-100000@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>; from sjmudd@pobox.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:50:35AM %2B0100 References: <20011125171037.A97187@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111260839020.1856-100000@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:50:35AM +0100, Simon J Mudd wrote: > > The easiest way to do this is probably portupgrade -r > > I think my point is this: > - why isn't this enforced by the ports collection? Not possible. > - why is it currenlty allowed Why is it allowed to do rm -rf /? > - why do the ports collection allow you to have two "conflicting" ports > installed at the same time > - this really causes the problem I've encountered. > - ideally you shouldn't be allowed to uninstall/upgrade a port > on which other ports depend, unless as you say you upgrade the > dependent ports too. I think this information should be available > at make install or make deinstall time. Yeah, there are lots of things that are true in an ideal world..yes, this is arguably a deficiency in the ports collection and it will be fixed someday. In the meantime just work with the proper tools - it only takes minimum effort to update ports if you go about it the right way. > Using pkg_tree, I've found that my current system is "a real mess". I've > not been using FreeBSD that long, since 3.4-RELEASE, and even in that time > I've seen several problems of this type. > > In fact while I have 207 packages installed in my system I currently have > 240 unsatisfied dependencies (as witnessed by > 'pkg_tree | grep unknown | wc -l'). > > I'm not sure whether I should take this to mean that I shouldn't follow > -STABLE, or quite what, but it does concern me that other packages I > have installed may be in the same situation. If they are libraries and > only minor version is different then the may be no problem. > > This is one aspect where I think rpm is much better. Okay, don't get me started on all the ways rpm is much worse :) Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8AqhlWry0BWjoQKURAvf1AJ9n92ogBpcFcmhFEvKp8Y6PPtxLTQCgq5Yl qp+2DoPGtZ8ZjphOzTYkFfw= =BC9h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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