Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please

[Joey Mingrone]

have you tried a "portsdb -Uu" to rebuild your indices?

>
>I'm not sure what I've done but I'll describe my symptoms.  I'm running
>4.8-RELEASE with a Gnome2 desktop and the dependent ports.  The only
>additional ports I've installed are cvsup-without-gui, portupgrade, 
>mplayer,
>evolution, galeon, and their dependencies.  Everything was installed by
>portupgrade except portupgrade itself.  Everything was running along fine
>until I decided to use portupgrade to upgrade my installed ports.
>
>It doesn't seem to matter which port I pick to upgrade, I get the same
>result.  In my latest attempt, I tried to upgrade 
>XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1.
>Here is the error:
>
>pkg_delete: package 'XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1' doesn't have a prefix
>** The following packages were not deinstalled (*:skipped / !:failed)
>         ! XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1     (pkg_delete failed)
>** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped /
>!:failed)
>         ! x11/XFree86-4-libraries (XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1)   (uninstall
>error)
>
>Now at this point, anything else I try to do with portupgrade tells me that
>I have stale dependencies and to run 'pkgdb -f' which I do and get many
>messages such as this:
>
>Stale dependency: xenostep-200011270836_1 -> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_3
>(x11/XFree86-4-libraries):
>Fixed. (-> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_1)
>
>And then the process repeats itself no matter what port I try to upgrade.
>Another anomoly is that a 'pkg_info' command shows the following in 
>addition
>to the normal output:
>
>pkg_info: can't find package 'freetype2-2.1.4' installed or in a file!
>pkg_info: can't find package 'glib-1.2.10_8' installed or in a file!
>pkg_info: can't find package 'glib-2.2.1' installed or in a file!
>pkg_info: can't find package 'libxml2-2.5.6' installed or in a file!
>pkg_info: can't find package 'nspr-4.3' installed or in a file!
>
>I've tried removing and reinstalling these ports both within portupgrade 
>and
>separately using 'make deinstall', 'make clean', and 'make install' but am
>still having these symptoms.
>
>Anyway, if anyone has ideas on what I may have screwed up I'd really like 
>to
>know so I can fix my mess and learn something along the way.  But if not I
>can remove everything and start over as this is just a box I am playing
>with.
>
>Thanks for your suggestions!!!
>
>Drew
>
>
>
>I would like to understand what is going on and fix it rather than just
>removing everything and starting over.
>
>
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