[Fwd: Portupgrade Stale Dependency Issue]

[Bob Perry]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:32:34 -0500
>Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Just ran pkgdb -F per prompt from the portversion program and got the 
>>following
>>two messages:
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>>Stale origin: 'textproc/ruby-rdoc': perhaps moved or obsoleted.
>>-> The port 'textproc/ruby-rdoc' was removed on 2003-12-15 because:
>>       "integrated into ruby18 and ruby16-shim-ruby18"
>>-> Hint: ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 is not required by any other package
>>-> Hint: checking for overwritten files...
>>-> No files installed by ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 have been overwritten by
>>other packages.
>>Deinstall ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 ? [no]
>>
>>Appears as though I'm being told that ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 can be removed, 
>>yet the
>>default selection re deinstall is "no".  Am I missing something?
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>As the hint says, you can deintsall it. After you're done with pkgdf -F
>do a portupgrade -r on ruby18 or ruby16-shim-ruby18, which ever you
>have.
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Done.  Just having difficulty understanding some of the logic behind the
program.   "Deinstall ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 ? [yes]" is easy for me to deal with.

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>>Second:
>>Stale dependency: gnome2-2.4.1 -> openldap-client-2.1.23 
>>(net/openldap21-client):
>>openldap-client-2.0.27 (score:76%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no]
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>It seems that you had down-graded your open-ldap. You now have installed
>openladap 2.0.27 on you system, but when you've installed gmnome you had
>2.1.13; you can either choose:
>a) yes (or all) and doing so will "point" gnome (or all) "to depend" on
>openldap-client-2.0.27 or 
>b) no, terminate pkgbd and do a portupgrade on openldap-client to bring
>it back to 2.1.xx
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>Choose what you need (if you have something that requires 2.0 do a if
>not do b.)
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>>I click the default selection "no" and I'm prompted to input a new 
>>dependency.
>>Assuming that I need to install openldap-client-2.1.23, I review the
>>net/openldap21-client port directory and I only find a Makefile.
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>And ? That make file sets CLIENT_ONLY=yes and includes the
>../openldap21-server's Makefile so all is OK. Looking at the places
>where CLINET_ONLY appears in the Make file tells that You can define to
>have or not the docs installed and to have WITH_SASL with (Cyrus) SASL2
>support.
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This clearly shows how FreeBSD-challenged I am.
Thanks for taking the time to respond and explain this process.

Bob Perry

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