From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 14:17:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB34F16A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:17:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail22.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail22.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9533A43D79 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:17:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 12341 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2005 14:16:46 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail22.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 Apr 2005 14:16:46 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 8F13C52; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:16:45 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Tom Moyer References: <1486736305041112551a6da2b5@mail.gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 12 Apr 2005 10:16:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1486736305041112551a6da2b5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <44br8kqdv6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Ports and Packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:17:11 -0000 Tom Moyer writes: > I'm using FreeBSD 5-STABLE installed from 5.4-RC1 and then cvsup'd to > 5-STABLE on Friday. > > Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I noticed that when I did > pkgdb -F or portsdb -Uu, it seemed to complain about build > dependancies missing for packages that I installed from packages. I > assumed that it would catch this and not prompt me to fix stale > dependacies like that. I've never had it warn me about build dependencies. I don't think the ports database even tracks them. Are you sure those aren't runtime dependencies? > Along those same lines: I deleted a build dependancy before I decided > to skip them, is there any way to fix that automatically? Sorry; I don't understand the question.