How to Reinstate gamin-0.1.5_2 Dependency

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Feb 2 09:25:19 PST 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 22:07 -0500, Bob Perry wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 00:44 -0500, Bob Perry wrote:
> >> On Tue January 31 2006 11:58 pm, you wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 23:10 -0500, Bob Perry wrote:
> >>>> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 and recently cvsup'd my system  and followed that
> >>>> with portupgrade.  I subsequently ran pkgdb -Fu and was asked if
> >>>> gamin-0.1.5_2 was a stale dependency for gnomevfs2-2.12.2_1 and
> >>>> inadvertently responded yes.  I attempted to reinstall gamin-0.1.5_2 and
> >>>> received a message stating that it was in conflict with fam-2.6.9_6 which
> >>>> I found was required by
> >>>> firefox-1.5_5,1.  The message also indicated that I should delete
> >>>> fam-2.6.9_6 and then I could complete installation of gamin-0.1.5_2  so I
> >>>> did.  I ran pkgdb -Fu again and replaced fam-2.6.9_6 with gamin-0.1.5_2
> >>>> as a dependency of firefox.  I expected to see a similar prompt
> >>>> requesting me to make gamin-0.1.5_2 a dependency of gnomevfs2-2.12.2_1
> >>>> but did not.
> >>>>
> >>>> Both, gamin-0.1.5_2 and fam-2.6.9_6 seem to fulfill the same function of
> >>>> monitoring file alterations (?). I don't fully understand the purpose but
> >>>> my question is how do I return gamin-0.1.5_2 as a dependent of
> >>>> gnomevfs2-2.12.2_1 and was I correct in making it a dependent of firefox?
> >>> You can only have one installed.  The following command will replace fam
> >>> with gamin:
> >>>
> >>> portupgrade -o devel/gamin -f fam
> >> I already removed fam when I installed gamin so this command doesn't recognize 
> >> fam.  However, it seems as though I need to do more than simply change 
> >> dependency via pkgdb -Fu.  For instance, gamin is now a dependency of firefox 
> >> because I change  it with the pkgdb -Fu command.  If I understand your 
> >> command, I really need to run portupgrade on firefox to make the change 
> >> whole.  Correct?
> > 
> > No, just run pkgdb -Ff, and select gamin if it asks about fam.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> Thanks Joe,
> I ran pkgdb -Ff and there was no output or prompts.  However, when I ran 
>   the pkg_info -rR gnomevfs2-2.12.2_1 command, gamin did not appear.  As 
> far as I knew it was still a dependency of gnomevfs2.  Did I miss a step?

You must still have fam installed.  gnomevfs2 will register a dependency
to either fam or gamin.

Joe

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