orphaned port?

Jens Rehsack rehsack at liwing.de
Sat Aug 23 12:42:46 PDT 2003


Michelle wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade mysql-server and when I ran the make command, I 
> received the following error:
> ===>  Installing for libtool-1.3.5_1
> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> ===>  Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server.
> 
> Than I ran pkg_version -v and saw the the libtool13 port is orphaned.  
> What does this mean and how can I fix it?

Assuming you have your ports in /usr/ports

# cd /usr/ports (Don't whether this is required or not)
# pkg_info | grep libtool
# libtool="#place the found libtool-1.3 port here#"
# portupgrade -o devel/libtool13 ${libtool}

And now try portupgrade mysql again!

Good luck
Jens



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