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

Paul Richards paul at freebsd-services.com
Fri Aug 8 09:18:18 PDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:55, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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.

Ok, the -a was the problem, it's worked now.

Thanks.



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