devel/autotools267 and UPDATING

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Thu Sep 16 10:43:10 UTC 2010


Am 16.09.2010 01:30, schrieb Barbara:
> 
> I've just run portupgrade -ap, after getting the new autotools and reading 
> UPDATING.
>>From what I can understand, as it's not a version bump but a new port (I 
> realized it too late...). So maybe I should have used something like:
> # portupgrade  -o devel/autoconf267 autoconf262
> Am I wrong? If not, maybe a note in UPDATING should be needed.
> 
> Now I have:
> $ pkg_info -Ix autoconf-2.6
> autoconf-2.62       Automatically configure source code on many Un*x 
> platforms 
> autoconf-2.67       Automatically configure source code on many Un*x 
> platforms 
> 
> And about the dependencies:
> $ pkg_info -Rx autoconf-2.67
> Information for autoconf-2.67:
> 
> $ pkg_info -Rx autoconf-2.62
> Information for autoconf-2.62:
> 
> Required by:
> automake-1.10.3
> automake-1.11.1
> automake-1.4.6_6
> automake-1.5_6,1
> automake-1.6.3_2
> automake-1.7.9_3
> automake-1.8.5_4
> automake-1.9.6_4
> autotools-20100915
> 
> So it seems that all the rebuilt ports depends on autoconf-2.62 and so I don't 
> know anymore which were the ports bumped for the dependency with the new 
> version to rebuild it after removing autoconf-2.62.

I've reinstalled autotools with portmaster (in ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster) to
solve this. Might be worth a try.

-- 
Matthias Andree


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