portupgrade question

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Mon Mar 29 12:04:03 PST 2004


I recently ran a portupgrade on one of our servers.  The following 
error and exchange came up:

server# pkgdb -F
--->  Checking the package registry database
Stale dependency: portupgrade-20040325_1 -> openssl-0.9.7d 
(security/openssl):
New dependency? (? to help): ?
  [Enter] to skip, [Ctrl]+[D] to delete,  [.][Enter] to abort, [Tab] to 
complete
New dependency? (? to help):  portupgrade-20040325_1
Fixed. (-> portupgrade-20040325_1)
Cyclic dependencies: portupgrade-20040325_1 -> (portupgrade-20040325_1)
Unlink portupgrade-20040325_1 -> portupgrade-20040325_1 ? [yes]
Command failed [exit code 1]: "grep -v 
\"^portupgrade\\\\-20040325_1\\\$\" < 
/var/db/pkg/portupgrade-20040325_1/+REQUIRED_BY > 
/tmp/+REQUIRED_BY82988.0"
server#

What should I have chosen?  pkgdb -F doesn't find any problems now, and 
no errors that I *see* are coming up, but should I deinstall and 
reinstall portupgrade or have I done something wrong to the database?  
How can I fix it?

-Bart



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