Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:01:25 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simplifying life with X.org and ports dependencies Message-ID: <XFMail.20040701130125.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040701160456.660ed858@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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On 01-Jul-2004 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:27:33 -0500 (CDT)
> "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> >Add the following alternate dependencies list, so that the section
>> >ends up
>> >looking like this:
>> >
>> > ALT_PKGDEP = {
>> > 'x11/XFree86-4-libraries' => 'x11/xorg-libraries',
>> > 'x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontEncodings' =>
>> > 'x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-encodings',
>> > 'x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable' =>
>> > 'x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-type1',
>> > 'x11/XFree86-4-clients' => 'x11/xorg-clients',
>> > }
>> >
>> >Voila! No more hassles with X dependencies!
>>
>> Hmmm, how odd. I just ran portupgrade on a port with one of the
>> above XFree dependencies, and the alternate dependency didn't
>> "take".
>>
>> Could there be a bug in the current version of portupgrade?
>
> Did you run "pkgdb -F"? I think it will fix those issues based upon
> ALT_PKGDEP automatically.
Yes, I've been running "pkgdb -F" after every portupgrade.
Unfortunately, it doesn't automatically resolve these alternate
dependencies; still have to fix them manually. :-(
--
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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