after pkg-config -> pkgconf update lots of packages show missing dependency on devel/pkg-config

[Anton Shterenlikht]

	Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:55:31 -0700
	From: Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>
	To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>
	CC: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
	Subject: Re: after pkg-config -> pkgconf update lots of packages show missing
	 dependency on devel/pkg-config

	On 07/30/2012 14:18, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
	> I did portmaster -o devel/pkgconf devel/pkg-config
	> as advised. Now doing "portmaster --check-depends"
	> returns 235 ports with
	> "missing dependency: devel/pkg-config".
	> I thought the "-o" portmaster option is specifically
	> to update the dependencies list. Am I wrong?
	> Or is this not possible in this particular case?

	It certainly should have worked, yes. Are you using the latest
	portmaster?

$ pkg info -xo portmaster
portmaster-3.13.13: ports-mgmt/portmaster
$

with pkgng patch

	And can you tgz and send me your /var/db/pkg directory?

http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/var_db_pkg.tar.xz

	> Anyway, I presume this is a benign warning, and
	> none of my 235 ports need to be rebuid, right?

	'portmaster -y --check-depends' is the right answer here. The run
	dependency on pkg-config has always been bogus, it's just that we're
	only now working on fixing it.

Same thing:
http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/depends

Note there are also lots of dependencies on perl5.14,
even though I did portmaster -o lang/perl5.16 lang/perl5.14
at the time (/usr/ports/UPDATING from 20120630).

In case it matters, these particular outputs are
from r237134 ia64. However, I get similar results
on amd64 -current too.

Many thanks for looking into this.

Anton

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