Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:33:12 -0400 From: Steven Friedrich <StevenFriedrich@InsightBB.com> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chicken and egg Message-ID: <49F77618.9090203@InsightBB.com> In-Reply-To: <49F74466.7050409@otenet.gr> References: <49F5F9F9.5050506@InsightBB.com> <443absdhg1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <49F73F43.30101@InsightBB.com> <49F74466.7050409@otenet.gr>
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Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Steven Friedrich wrote: >> Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>> Steven Friedrich <StevenFriedrich@InsightBB.com> writes: >>> >>>> I've been having trouble with X11 ports, so I deleted all my packages >>>> and tried to install xorg fresh. >>>> >>>> xorg port failed trying to build cairo, cairo failed because it >>>> couldn't build libdrm, libdrm failed because cairo's headers weren't >>>> installed. >>>> >>>> So in summary, I can't install cairo because it wants to build libdrm, >>>> which won't build/install because it wants cairo. >>>> >>>> And I tried to install packages or the X11 distro from the ftp site >>>> and also from my 7.2 RC-1 media. I tried setting the Options for >>>> "any" as well as RELEASE_7_2_0, to no avail. My system is up and >>>> running multi-user, so sysinstall failed to install any packages. >>>> >>>> I built cairo with make -k install, so it would brute force past the >>>> error, and after that I built libdrm and cairo again with portupgrade >>>> -fr libdrm cairo. >>> Not only have I not seen or heard of this problem before, I can't see >>> any direct dependency of either libdrm or cairo on the other. >>> >> pkg_info -r cairo\* shows that cairo needs libdrm. >> Information for cairo-1.8.6_1,1: >> >> Depends on: >> ... >> Dependency: libdrm-2.4.9 >> ... >> >> If anyone has a has a test system, where they could try my scenario, >> i.e., deleting all installed packages and trying to install xorg, I >> think you'll find it. >> >> I have two identical systems that I have mobile racks in, allowing me >> to swap out the hard drives. So I have 4 sets of drives, Lightning, >> Daemon, FreakinBSD, and Gandalf. I saw this issue with Daemon. I >> need to update FreakinBSD and Gandalf, so I'll try this again and get >> it in a log file. >> >> libdrm doesn't build without cairo.h in /usr/local/include, but it >> won't be there until you're built cairo, which depends on libdrm. >> > As Lowell already said, I can't find any dependency between libdrm and > cairo. My guess is you package database has one or more stale > dependencies. However, if the purpose is to wipe all packages you don't > even have to bother with pkg_delete. In such cases I simply rm > /usr/local and /var/db/pkg (Keep /var/db/pkg/linux_base-fc* if you are > using the linux binary compatibility, as this is not installed in > /usr/local but /usr/compat). I do this routinely on test systems. > > On a system with cairo installed, try pkg_info -r cairo\*|grep drm Here's from one of my systems: Dependency: libdrm-2.4.9 Since I used pkg_delete -a to get rid of all ports and packages, I couldn't have any stale dependencies, could I ? After that I went to /usr/ports/x11/xorg and did a make install and it failed. My ports are recent, I'm tracking 7.2-RC1, etc. -- Steven Friedrich Lexington, KY 40509
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