Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:00:49 -0400 From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>, "K Anderson" <freebsduser@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports woes. Message-ID: <20030926150050.0671276EA1@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <200309260732.43942.kstewart@owt.com> References: <00df01c38185$2255aee0$5864a8c0@patience> <200309260732.43942.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:32:43 -0700, "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> said: > On Thursday 25 September 2003 04:12 pm, K Anderson wrote: > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > On Monday 22 September 2003 08:45 pm, cuddlesomebunny wrote: > > >>Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports? > > >> > > >>I am using FreeBSD 5.x-p2 and I am using ports and am having one > > >> hell of a time installing things. > > >> > > >>Here's what is happeng. > > >> > > >>I go to install ports and if it needs to get a dependency it goes > > >> and fetches it and becomes the usual compile process. Except that > > >> the dependency might already be installed with the exact version > > >> required and so most of the time the ports error out telling me I > > >> need to make deinstall on some dependency then make reinstall on > > >> it. [snip] > > >>I tried using the portupgrade stuffs but that just seems to make > > >>things worse overall. > > >> > > >>Anybody got any hints as to why it seems ports is having these > > >> sorts of problems? > > > > > > I don't have any idea what you problem is; however, there is an > > > ongoing discussion on -current with people having port problems. > > > What I remember is that the freeze has them locked and they can't > > > patch the ports to build and install on -current until the port > > > freeze is over. You might be caught by this problem or something > > > entirely different. I'm obviously getting into this very late, but I'll hazard a couple of suggestions. Apologies if they've already been discussed/discarded. 1. If you haven't already, run portsdb -uU and pkgdb -F. 2. If it isn't among the "portupgrade stuff" you've already tried, the -fRN options in combination may work. Jud
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