cvs commit: ports/x11-wm Makefile ports/x11-wm/metacity-setup ports/x11-wm/metacity-setup/files patch-src_callbacks.c patch-src_interface.c

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 8 08:55:30 PDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:50, Paul Richards wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 16:45, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:39, Paul Richards wrote:
> > > Is there a recommended way of dealing with removed packages?
> > 
> > That's what the MOVED file is supposed to do.  In a way, it does work. 
> > The best thing to do in _this_ situation is do portupgrade gnome2, then
> > pkgdb -F and remove metacity-setup.  You'll note when you run the pkgdb
> > command, it will print the metacity-setup remove message from the MOVED
> > file.
> 
> That doesn't work for me. portupgrade aborts the upgrade of gnome2
> because the metacity-setup upgrade fails. If you then run pkgdb -F, it
> prints the MOVED message and offers to delete it, but pkg_delete fails
> because of the gnome2 dependency.

Hmmm...I just did this twice, and it works for me.  You have to upgrade
gnome2 by itself to get it to work (portupgrade gnome2).  Any recursive
or options or portupgrade -a will not work.

Joe


> 
> Paul.
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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