Gnome 2.16 upgrade failed (yeah, I read /usr/src/UPDATING)

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Wed Oct 18 01:54:01 UTC 2006


Rainer Alves writes:

>  * mplayer:
>  [rainer at bsd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer]$ make showconfig | grep -i skin
>        SKINS=on "Force dependency on mplayer-skins"
>  In my case, mplayer decided to install the dependecy
>  mplayer-skins during its install phase, the mplayer-skins'
>  distfiles were corrupted and it failed to install
>  multimedia/mplayer. I was able to fix this with a rm -f
>  /usr/ports/distfiles/mplayer/* (which removes the skins
>  distfiles).

	mplayer also depends of win32-codecs, which is currently
FORBIDDEN due to security issues.  win32-codecs ahs no maintainer.


>  - graphics/cairo failed the first time during the configure phase 
>  (complaining it couldn't find a suitable "glitz" version), I had to 
>  check config.log and found out it was looking for glitz > 0.5, while the 
>  installed version was still 0.4.*. I solved this by forcing the glitz 
>  upgrade first (portupgrade -f graphics/glitz) and then I was able to 
>  upgrade graphics/cairo.

	Confirmed.


				Robert Huff


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