2.10 failed dependency

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 21:55 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 21:30 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > > doing gnome_upgrade (for the millionth time, Chuck, it's a underbar, not a
> > > dash, dang it!) I got this error:
> > >
> > > --->  Skipping 'x11/gnome2' (gnome2-2.8.3_1) because a requisite package
> > > 'nautilus-media-0.8.1_1' (multimedia/nautilus-media) failed (specify -k to
> > > force)
> > >         * lang/python (python-2.4)
> > >         * misc/gnomehier (gnomehier-2.0_5)
> > >         ! multimedia/nautilus-media (nautilus-media-0.8.1_1)    (invalid
> > > package name)
> > >         * x11/gnome2 (gnome2-2.8.3_1)
> > >
> > >
> > > Trouble is, my cvs tells me there ain't no such thing as a
> > > multimedia/nautilus-media, not even anything close.  The directory is
> > > there, it's empty save for the CVS subdir, which looks itself fine
> > > (although it's fatally empty).
> > >
> > > Anyone got any hints on this one?
> >
> > gnome_upgrade.sh mentions this port by name before it begins the
> > upgrade.  Nautilus-media is gone in GNOME 2.10.  You can either remove
> > it manually, or let pkgdb -Ff do it for you.
> 
> Got it, Joe, fixed.  Next on the list, gnome_update is complainig about a
> fairly length list of items that are "stale dependencies".  I haven't got
> even the vaguest idea what to do here: keepthem get rid of them, or
> (assuming I even knew what to do), HOW to do it.  Complete and total blank
> here.  Help!  I don't even have a vague idea of where to go looking for
> help, and temporarily, the gnome upgrade script has for some reason
> tromped on my mozilla , so I can't even google it.

In general, you can skip stale dependencies once the upgrade has
started.  Once it completes, you should run pkgdb -Ff to resolve any
stale dependencies at that point.

Joe

> 
> That's irritating, 'cause I know my mozilla-devel is just dandy.  I want
> to get the gnome upgrade humming again!
> 
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