Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:41:58 -0600 From: Andrew <andrew.chace@gmail.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb Message-ID: <1139596918.58491.3.camel@netvista.network> In-Reply-To: <17388.49778.982280.245532@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <1139589051.2185.8.camel@netvista.network> <17388.49778.982280.245532@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > Andrew writes: > > > I've run "pkgdb -F" as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale > > dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. > > I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way > it works. > You need to fix, not delete, the stale dependencies. This may > take some effort the first time around. > Beyond that, I question the wisdom of any "automatic" > solution. There are definitely times when I do _not_ want to accept > the fixes proposed by pkgdb -F. I guess what is unclear to me is how I go about fixing the stale dependencies. I was under the impression that portupgrade would take care of the dependencies for a particular port, and the "stale dependency" was just an error in the package database (pkgdb). Is this not the case? Thank-you, Andrew
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