Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:02:46 +0100 From: Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> To: Noah <admin2@enabled.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: difficulties remove stale dependency Message-ID: <46AFA376.5020900@crackmonkey.us> In-Reply-To: <46AF42C1.5000807@enabled.com> References: <46AF42C1.5000807@enabled.com>
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Noah wrote: > > Hi, > > any clues on how to cure this situation. It appears I am having > difficulties removing stale dependencies. > > access1# portupgrade -a > Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_2 <-- emacs-21.3_9 -- manually run 'pkgdb > -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. > access1# portupgrade - > access1# pkgdb -F > ---> Checking the package registry database > access1# pkgdb -FO > ---> Checking the package registry database > access1# portupgrade -a > Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_2 <-- emacs-21.3_9 -- manually run 'pkgdb > -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. > > Cheers, > > Noah Hi Noah, I get this a lot on one of my systems. Just that one - no idea why. Anyway, I find including option -O allows most things to ignore stale links, including portupgrade. Oh - did you try installing portupgrade-devel and not portupgrade? That helped me out of a hole once and now I use it for everything. HtH, Adam J Richardson
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