Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:01:58 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jeff Anton <antonfb@hesiod.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: pkgdb -F calling portupgrade -a Message-ID: <20070611010158.GA36371@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <18028.37925.269776.104495@bhuda.mired.org> References: <20070610120017.645B116A4DA@hub.freebsd.org> <466C8611.5020009@hesiod.org> <18028.36946.981778.560346@bhuda.mired.org> <20070611000709.GA30241@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20070611000223.GA28536@rot13.obsecurity.org> <18028.37925.269776.104495@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:15:33PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20070611000223.GA28536@rot13.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> typed: > > > ---> Checking the package registry database > > > Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_1 -> xf86dgaproto-2.0.2 (x11/xf86dgaproto): > > > Install stale dependency? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [yes] n > > ^ > > > New dependency? (? to help): > > > Delete this? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [yes] > > ^^^^ > > Whee, you've deleted metadata that was required for correctness of > > future upgrades. > > Just out of curiosity, what should he have done? Yes, the data was > required for the correctness of future upgrades, but the data was > broken in ways that the automated tools couldn't deal with. Installing > the stale dependency would lead to incorrectly trying to install the > new x.org 7 ports. There's no right-looking new dependency to use, or > pkgdb would have suggested it. Leaving the dependency in place > wouldn't solve the problem that pkgdb was run to fix in the first > place. So what's the right alternative? I guess deleting it is probably the least bad alternative, followed by upgrading to xorg 7.2, followed by a pkgdb -L to repair the damage. Kris
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