ports/187362: 'pkg check -dn' doesn't display affected ports
Andrew Berg
aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu
Sat Mar 8 08:00:01 UTC 2014
>Number: 187362
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: 'pkg check -dn' doesn't display affected ports
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 08 08:00:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Andrew Berg
>Release: 10.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD robotsondrugs.com 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Thu Jan 16 22:34:59 UTC 2014 root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
Using pkg 1.2.6.
This output displays the missing dependency as well as which port depends on it:
[robotsondrugs ~]# pkg check -d
sysutils/gnome-mount has a missing dependency: textproc/docbook-xml-450
sysutils/gnome-mount has a missing dependency: textproc/docbook-xml-440
sysutils/gnome-mount has a missing dependency: textproc/docbook-xml-430
..
>How-To-Repeat:
Forcibly delete some packages that are depended upon and compare the output of 'pkg check -d' to 'pkg check -dn'.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
>>> Missing package dependencies were detected.
..
With the -n switch added, however, it simply dumps a list of missing dependencies with no context:
[robotsondrugs ~]# pkg check -dn
textproc/docbook-xml-450
textproc/docbook-xml-440
textproc/docbook-xml-430
..
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