the art of pkgdb -F

[Beech Rintoul]

On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Jeffrey Goldberg said:
> On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Josh Carroll wrote:
> >> Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 -> p5-GSSAPI-0.24
> >> (security/ p5-GSSAPI):
> >> p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no]
> >
In this case the port p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 is linked to p5-GSSAPI-0.24, 
but security/ p5-GSSAPI-0.24 doesn't exist. thus it's a "stale 
dependency".

It then searches what ports you do have installed and picks what it 
thinks is closest. In this case p5-Geography-Countries-1.4. the score 
is how close a match to the original dependency this choice is. In 
this case 26% which isn't a very good match.

([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] means "Do I want to change the link to what's 
suggested? Yes No or All. All means every time a stale link to 
p5-GSSAPI-0.24 is found answer yes. And finally the last [no] is the 
default. Hitting enter will use this answer unless you change it.

Unless you're sure of the replacement choice (it's just a version 
update etc...), don't blindly just choose "yes". You can really shoot 
yourself in the foot and cause all kinds of build failures. If you're 
not sure, choose "no" and hit enter. It will then ask you if you want 
to reinstall the dependency it's looking for. Which would be a good 
choice in this case.

Hope this helps,

Beech

> > Well this one is pretty obvious. Look at what the stale
> > dependency is, and what it's suggesting? :)
>
> To me it is entirely unclear.  First of all, I don't know what
> "stale dependency" is supposed to mean.  Second, I don't know what
> "score" means, and finally, I don't know what the question is that
> I'm to answer yes, no or all to.
>
> So I've just taken to running with -Fa and hope for the best (and
> so far everything has worked).
>
> If the answers to these questions are in the man page for pkgdb, I
> apologize, but I haven't found them there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -j
>
>
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