Xorg upgrade deps

Mark Kirkwood markir at paradise.net.nz
Mon May 21 23:57:19 UTC 2007


Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm part way though the xorg 7.2 upgrade (following procedure in 
> UPDATING) and have done:
> 
> $ portupgrade -Rf libXft
> 
> which seems to have completed ok. However when I do the next step:
> 
> $ portupgrade -a
> 
> I get:
> 
> Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_1 --> xorg-libraries-6.9.0_1 -- manually 
> run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
> (...and other packages that depend on xorg-libraries)
> 
> Now at this point I have no idea what to replace the stale dependency 
> with....obviously *one* or more of the new modularized libs. I guess for 
> Xaw3d it might depend on only libXaw-1.0.2, but there are others (say 
> java stuff) for which its not obvious.
> 
> What did other folks do at this stage?
> 

Thinking on this a little, I'm guessing that leaving the stale 
dependency is the way to go, as xorg-libraries meta port is not 
registered (yet?).

Mark


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