Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:13:06 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "Chandan Haldar" <chandanh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 stable: linuxpluginwrapper port build failure Message-ID: <cb5206420602200413j5b5e4f9bs71261657b11dac69@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43F99F17.1040407@gmail.com> References: <43F96644.3070306@gmail.com> <cb5206420602200015o3b0bdb00ve0f4942eff960229@mail.gmail.com> <43F99F17.1040407@gmail.com>
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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. # pkg_delete -a # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade # make install clean # portinstall firefox mplayer whatever (You only need to portinstall the leaf ports, everything else will be installed by dependencies, naturally) pkgdb -F is not a complicated process, but you'll have to learn things like 'fam and gamin do the same thing' or 'I don't have something, but I have something-core'. Pkgdb tries to guess, but it does a poor job at that.
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