Portmaster quickly fails to update xcb-utils

[Peggy Wilkins]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Peggy Wilkins <enlil65 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I try to follow the instructions in UPDATING for upgrading
> xcb-util, using portmaster it fails very early in the process:
>
> % portmaster -bDw -R -r xcb-util-0
>
> ===>>> Working on:
>        xcb-util-0.3.6,1
>
>
> ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/x11/xcb-util
>
> ===>>> Launching 'make checksum' for x11/xcb-util in background
> ===>>> Gathering dependency list for x11/xcb-util from ports
>
> ===>>> Update failed
> ===>>> Aborting update
>
> ===>>> Update for xcb-util-0.3.6,1 failed
> ===>>> Aborting update
>
> Terminated
> Terminated
>
>
> I am seeing this on FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p5 and FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3.
>  I updated the ports tree again just now to be sure I have the latest
> version and there is no change after doing that.
>
> Any hints?  I'm not having much luck figuring out the problem myself,
> since I don't know why a dependency check would fail here...

It works fine if I run it without the -R option.  FYI for anyone who
may be having the same problem.

  --plw