Squeezeboxserver loops endlessly

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 9 09:27:18 UTC 2012


On 03/07/2012 15:01, Mel Flynn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/7/2012 22:48, Michael Heitmeier wrote:
> 
>> I just cvsupped ports so I'm wondering is that a problem on my side or is
>> the port broken?
> 
>> ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww
>>
>> ===>>> Launching 'make checksum' for www/p5-libwww in background
>> ===>>> Gathering dependency list for www/p5-libwww from ports
>>
>> ===>>> The dependency for net/p5-Net-HTTP
>>        seems to be handled by p5-libwww-5.837
> 
> This one of two cases I know of that portmaster is trying to be smarter
> then it should.
> It notices a conflict and tries to redirect the dependency to the
> conflicting port. In many cases this is the correct thing to do, but not
> in this case, because one of the ports depends on the other.

This problem was caused by the way that the maintainer did the update,
and perpetuated by the maintainer refusing to fix it.

> Deleting
> both p5-libwww-5.837 and p5-Net-HTTP-* and then re-running portmaster
> should fix things for you.

Yes.

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