user error with pkgdb -F

[David J Brooks]

On Friday 25 May 2007 03:14:34 pm Robert Huff wrote:
> David J Brooks writes:
> >  I screwed up... at the end of my portupgrade -a following the
> >  Xorg upgrade.  kdemultimedia was left with one stale dependency,
> >  akode-plugins-jack. So I ran pkgdb -F to pull it in if it had
> >  somehow been missed. The script offered akode-plugins-xiph with a
> >  score of 77%. I checked the version numbers, and they matched, so
> >  I hit 'a' for all and instantly realized I had done the wrong
> >  thing. Now everything that was depending on the jack plugin wants
> >  xiph instead. Is there a less painful way to fix this than wiping
> >  the pkgdb and starting from scratch?
>
> 	Have you looked at the pkgdb man-page?  I see at least one
> thing ther I would be willing (after backing up pkgdb.db) to
> experiment with.

pkgdb -L does the trick. Thanks. :)

David
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