Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:44:55 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 stable: linuxpluginwrapper port build failure Message-ID: <43FA1C37.1070607@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420602200413j5b5e4f9bs71261657b11dac69@mail.gmail.com> References: <43F96644.3070306@gmail.com> <cb5206420602200015o3b0bdb00ve0f4942eff960229@mail.gmail.com> <43F99F17.1040407@gmail.com> <cb5206420602200413j5b5e4f9bs71261657b11dac69@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 2/20/06, Chandan Haldar <chandanh@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Thanks a lot for the direction. All goes well until portupgrade asks me >>to run 'pkgdb -F', >>which asks me to resolve stale dependencies. I have a large number of >>ports installed and >>the dependencies seem somewhat intractable for manual resolution. Is >>this the only way >>to resolve the stale dependencies or am I as usual missing something :-( >>? From the pkgdb >>manpage I could not understand the implication of the score and how that >>helps me >>select a new dependency... > > > > If you have some spare time, consider reinstalling all > the ports. You might try sysutils/portmanager first. It upgrades lowest dependencies first then works it's way up the dependency tree so stale dependencies are not usually a problem. It works very well. Chris
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