Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:55:31 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: after pkg-config -> pkgconf update lots of packages show missing dependency on devel/pkg-config Message-ID: <50175733.60902@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201207302118.q6ULI6V1090317@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201207302118.q6ULI6V1090317@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On 07/30/2012 14:18, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I did portmaster -o devel/pkgconf devel/pkg-config
> as advised. Now doing "portmaster --check-depends"
> returns 235 ports with
> "missing dependency: devel/pkg-config".
> I thought the "-o" portmaster option is specifically
> to update the dependencies list. Am I wrong?
> Or is this not possible in this particular case?
It certainly should have worked, yes. Are you using the latest
portmaster? And can you tgz and send me your /var/db/pkg directory?
> Anyway, I presume this is a benign warning, and
> none of my 235 ports need to be rebuid, right?
'portmaster -y --check-depends' is the right answer here. The run
dependency on pkg-config has always been bogus, it's just that we're
only now working on fixing it.
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I can do.
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