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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