portmanager loop?

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote:

> Thanks Bart for your patience, this one required me to set up
> XFree86-4 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine and back date all of the ports.

Perfectly understandable and I thank you for the efforts you're going 
through to get portmanager updated so quickly.

> So
> now I know that on December 1st, 2004 /usr/ports/graphics/xfree86-dri
> and /usr/ports/graphics/dri both existed and both report their name
> as dri-5.0.2,2 on that date.  This caused portmanager to loop
> so I have duplicated the problem which means it can be fixed.
>
> I still need to move the ports forward to the current date before
> I have a certain fix but right now I think the quick work around will 
> be
> to go into each of these directories (graphics/dri and
> graphics/xfree86-dri)  and manually de-install them.  Then let
> portmanager pull back in the correct one. That worked
> for the ports as they existed on December 1st, 2004  but I still
> need to verify it works for the current date.

So for a quick fix at the moment, I should just go into 
/usr/ports/graphics/dri and /usr/ports/graphics/xfree86-dri and run 
"make deinstall", then run "portmanager -u" and it should install the 
proper version for the dependancies, correct?

Thanks again!

-Bart