"stale dependency" in pkgdb -F

Tim van den Elsen timmie at timmie.dyndns.org
Mon Apr 14 08:55:09 PDT 2003


Hi,

Take a look at this site: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/1385
Good luck.

Regards,

Tim

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:49:00 +0700
Roger Merritt <mcrogerm at stjohn.ac.th> wrote:

> I don't know why I haven't learned the answer to this yet. I can't find 
> anything in the man page for pkgdb. Two questions, really.
> What does it mean when I run 'pkgdb -F' and get the error message that I 
> have a "stale dependency"? What does pkgdb want me to enter in response to 
> the error message? This really annoys me, and what I've usually done in the 
> past was to go install the port that was equivalent to the "stale" port. 
> That's worked, but I don't know why.
> 
> -- 
> Roger
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