Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:16:18 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the art of pkgdb -F Message-ID: <20070328041618.55976dab@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> References: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
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--Sig_IiRkCkISzKCHm71wSWtEY7v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:17:13 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote: > I'm looking at >=20 > http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php >=20 > while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like >=20 > 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]=20 >=20 > I must ask. How the hell am I supposed to know?? I build that as a > dependency of something that I built months ago. There's a good > chance that I'll be simply guessing at all of the answers.=20 >=20 > Is it really useful to run this if you can't remember? And why am I > remembering anyway? That's what a packaging system is for, isn't it? You can run: portmanager -u -p -l That will rebuild all broken and or missing dependencies for all of your ports. If you just want to correct a single port, try this: portmanager /port/name-of-port -p -l HTH --=20 Gerard Horner's Five Thumb Postulate: Experience varies directly with equipment ruined. --Sig_IiRkCkISzKCHm71wSWtEY7v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGCiRTFCqdq4D1ybYRAgVPAKCyXAsoV9FC2dWfgVJ1vXyWKLzt9gCfWDge z/5AqubEl/poXFKHK+bshhk= =j+97 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_IiRkCkISzKCHm71wSWtEY7v--
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