4.9-RELEASE Xorg switch question

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri May 13 05:50:45 PDT 2005


ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> writes:

> On 05/07/05 11:12, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> > Hmm.  Are you sure that you deleted the imake ports before building
> > X.Org?  You shouldn't have stale imake dependencies from X.Org  if you
> > rebuilt both.  And the stale dependencies from other X ports should
> > get fixed up by pkgdb -F (which *will* require you to redirect the
> > dependencies, of course).
> 
> 
> w.r.t your last point, are you saying then that i have to:
> 
> pkgdb ... -s /imake-4.../imake-6.../
> pkgdb ... -s /XFree86-libraries-.../xorg-libraries-.../
> etc
> 
> or run 'pkgdb -F' and delete all the stale dependencies? (which i am
> guessing is a bad thing to do).

If you run 'pkgdb -F', it should suggest redirecting the dependencies,
and it will probably suggest the correct new dependencies.  But if you
really deleted all of the imake ports before building x.org, you
wouldn't have incorrect dependencies in the first place.


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