marked as broken

[Garrett Cooper]

On Feb 1, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Bob Ababurko wrote:

> I am running 5.4 release and have come across a port that has been  
> marked as broken.  The port is  pear-Archive_Tar-1.3.1 and I am  
> wondering what I can do to get past this short of updating my   
> whole ports tree....which I am afraid of doing since this is a  
> production machine....and because I dont have much experience doing  
> it either.
>
> ===>  pear-Archive_Tar-1.3.1 is marked as broken: Incomplete pkg- 
> plist.
>
>
> When I try to install the package, it seems that the dependencies  
> within the package are looking for a version of Apache that is off  
> by an update...1.3.33 vs 1.3.34!
>
> Not sure what would be the best way to handle this....my brain is a  
> mess today and im looking for the easiest method of getting this  
> done...of which I am not choosing the correct ways today, so any  
> help would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Bob

Maybe you can just try forcing the install to see if it works?
-Garrett