From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 04:56:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7923216A403 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:56:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5602D13C459 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:56:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2S4ugwH026022 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:56:43 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-187-172-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.183]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2S4ugFr022235 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:56:42 -0700 Message-ID: <4609F549.3000904@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:55:37 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070325) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <8cb6106e0703271834l9014bffp8f1d5e753f7ec108@mail.gmail.com> <8EEB22EE-7230-4EEC-BEFE-514EBE059992@goldmark.org> <200703272037.12036.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <200703272037.12036.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.3.27.214734 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: the art of pkgdb -F X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:56:43 -0000 Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Jeffrey Goldberg said: >> On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Josh Carroll wrote: >>>> Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 -> p5-GSSAPI-0.24 >>>> (security/ p5-GSSAPI): >>>> p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] > In this case the port p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 is linked to p5-GSSAPI-0.24, > but security/ p5-GSSAPI-0.24 doesn't exist. thus it's a "stale > dependency". > > It then searches what ports you do have installed and picks what it > thinks is closest. In this case p5-Geography-Countries-1.4. the score > is how close a match to the original dependency this choice is. In > this case 26% which isn't a very good match. > > ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] means "Do I want to change the link to what's > suggested? Yes No or All. All means every time a stale link to > p5-GSSAPI-0.24 is found answer yes. And finally the last [no] is the > default. Hitting enter will use this answer unless you change it. > > Unless you're sure of the replacement choice (it's just a version > update etc...), don't blindly just choose "yes". You can really shoot > yourself in the foot and cause all kinds of build failures. If you're > not sure, choose "no" and hit enter. It will then ask you if you want > to reinstall the dependency it's looking for. Which would be a good > choice in this case. > > Hope this helps, > > Beech > >>> Well this one is pretty obvious. Look at what the stale >>> dependency is, and what it's suggesting? :) >> To me it is entirely unclear. First of all, I don't know what >> "stale dependency" is supposed to mean. Second, I don't know what >> "score" means, and finally, I don't know what the question is that >> I'm to answer yes, no or all to. >> >> So I've just taken to running with -Fa and hope for the best (and >> so far everything has worked). >> >> If the answers to these questions are in the man page for pkgdb, I >> apologize, but I haven't found them there. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -j Stale's like "lost", but IIRC the entry is still there or the current entry was properly updated to reflect the move. -Garrett