Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:32:12 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyclic dependencies = pain in the butt Message-ID: <20080331043212.75b62f21@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080330222419.060f69b5.ejcerejo@optonline.net> References: <20080330222419.060f69b5.ejcerejo@optonline.net>
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:24:19 -0400 Eduardo Cerejo <ejcerejo@optonline.net> wrote: > After running pkgdb -F I'm getting endless cyclic dependencies, so > many of them that I completely gave up. The last one goes like this: > > ---> Checking the package registry database > Cyclic dependencies: gnome-desktop-2.22.0 -> nautilus-2.22.1 -> > eel-2.22.1 -> py25-gnome-2.22.0 -> tracker-0.6.2_2 -> > (gnome-desktop-2.22.0) Unlink which dependency? (? to help): > > What does this mean? Is there another way to fix this than to figure > this out? How am I suppose to know what depends on what? I thought > portupgrade would do that automatically. Try going to x11-toolkits/py-gnome2, and doing a make all-depends-list to see if it really does depend on tracker-0.6.2_2 It doesn't in my tree, but it may be that you have hit on a combination of options that produces the cycle.
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