Proper procedure to update hal on -current

Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.current at mailing.thruhere.net
Fri Apr 17 08:35:42 UTC 2009


Hi Johannes,

On Friday 17 April 2009 09:31:46 Johannes Dieterich wrote:

> > Do I need to temporarily uninstall devel/libusb (it doesn't build now
> > anyway,
> > but maybe upgrading to today's current will fix that) then reinstall it?
>
> My procedure was to deinstall devel/libusb, then I also encountered the
> same kind of mising dependencies as you do but for me a pkgdb -F afterwards
> would fix them. Then hal would also build for me. :-)

Ah, this relies on ldconfig -r finding /usr/lib/libusb and thus not installing 
devel/libusb. Gotcha.

> See the procedure in ports/UPDATING, entry 20090309.

(somebody needs to look at pkg_updating -d option as it showed me phonon entry 
+ 20090319 entry)
-- 
Mel


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