Error when using 'portupgrade -ay' (and several others) [Second attempt]

Jens Rasmus Liland jensrasmus at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 17:50:47 UTC 2009


So what command am I supposed to run?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Barney Wolff <barney at databus.com> wrote:

> I got around this by using -k.  Dependencies are a maze of twisty
> little passages, all alike.  I'll take my chances with the grue.
>
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 04:17:17PM +0200, Jens Rasmus Liland wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm getting really weird problems when trying to upgrade my ports. I've
> > already discussed this with Dan Naumov on the stable mailing list, and he
> is
> > out of ideas on what I am to do. I've tried to fix the problem using many
> > different methods (i.e. csup stable-ports-supfile; Portmaster -a/-af,
> > portupgrade -ay, nuking the entire ports tree and then doing fetch ports;
> > extract, and similar stuff), but everyone seems to get the same error,
> and
> > not come any further. The ports my system is trying to update is not in
> the
> > ports tree anymore either, so it is really strange that it is trying to
> > update it self.
> >
> > Here is some outputs I've already posted on the stable mailinglist:
> >
> > Running 'portupgrade -ay'. Got this output:
> >
> > --->  Session started at: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:58:30 +0200
> > ** Port directory not found: x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga
> > ** Port marked as IGNORE: x11-drivers/xf86-video-via:
> >     requires pciVideoPtr typedef
> > ** Port directory not found: x11/xorg-protos
> > ** Port directory not found: x11/xphelloworld
>


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