Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:58:39 +0100 From: Christian Tischler <mail@myunix.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Reparing FreeBSD ports tree. Message-ID: <41F60A3F.7040908@myunix.net>
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Hi everyone. My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tree ist all screwed up. There are tons of wrong/failed/whatever dependencies and some ports wont work. How can I repair this problem without an complete reinstall of the system? I have a lot of services running for my local net and a huge amount of configurations. For exsample when I do /usr/ports/make index I get: ---------- # make index Generating INDEX - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.5_5: "/usr/ports/print/acroread5" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete ===> print/apsfilter failed *** Error code 1 1 error -------- The second question is who to reinstall e.g. apache without uninstalling all the stuff that depends on it? e.g. When I did the portupgrade I obviously did something wrong, and now the xml module is missing, which is needed by some of my web aps. I would be very glad if someone could point me out the nessesary steps to clear this mess. I really thought about an complete reinstallation of the system, but everytime I install a new system I rn into dependency problems with the ports collection, as one app requires a version of an tool, but another dependence stops me from reinstalling the newer version. Is there an general guideline to prevent this? thx a lot in advance Christian
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