Portupgrade has serious problems

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Mon Sep 8 13:00:52 UTC 2008


On Monday 08 September 2008 05:42:48 David Southwell wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2008 04:59:06 Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> > David Southwell wrote:
> > > --->  Skipping 'x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk2' (ruby18-gtk2-0.16.0.20080706)
> > > because a requisite package 'ruby18-gdk_pixbuf2-0.16.0.20080706' ()
> > > failed (specify -k to force)
> >
> > Empty brackets display a problem with a database. But for some reason it
> > can't be detected by bdb engine.
> >
> > > --->  Skipping 'devel/ruby-libglade2'
> > > (ruby18-libglade2-0.16.0.20080706) because a requisite package
> > > 'ruby18-gtk2-0.16.0.20080706'
> > > (x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk2) failed (specify -k to force)
> > >
> > > All these problems have identical symptoms and are fixed by rerunning
> > > portupgrade!!
> > > It looks as though portupgrade is failing to reexamine the database
> > > after each upgrade OR is searching for a dependency which is limited to
> > > the previous version!
> >
> > Could you remove both /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and /usr/ports/INDEX*.db and
> > rerun portupgrade? They will be recreated automatically.
>
> OK done that I will report back when I have done a few  cvsups and
> portupgrade runs and see whether that fixes the problem. Thanks for keeping
> on to this.
>
> Lets hope this works

No such luck I am afraid we still have the same problem;;

===>   Registering installation for poppler-0.8.7
===>  Cleaning for poppler-0.8.7
--->  Cleaning out obsolete shared libraries
[Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 1047 packages 
found (-0 +1) . done]
--->  Skipping 'graphics/poppler-qt' (poppler-qt-0.8.6) because a requisite 
package 'poppler-0.8.6' () failed (specify -k to force)
--->  Skipping 'graphics/poppler-gtk' (poppler-gtk-0.8.6) because a requisite 
package 'poppler-0.8.6' () failed (specify -k to force)
** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)


# /usr/ports]# pkg_info -o poppler*
Information for poppler-0.8.7:

Origin:
graphics/poppler

Information for poppler-data-0.2.0:

Origin:
graphics/poppler-data

Information for poppler-gtk-0.8.6:

Origin:
graphics/poppler-gtk

Information for poppler-qt-0.8.6:

Origin:
graphics/poppler-qt

[root at dns1 /usr/ports]#


Looks like same problem

David




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