Portupgrade problem

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now,
> having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to
> stop some problems.
>
> Some ports have failed and been flagged as "configure error" or "install
> error". Then I have tried to do a manual install of those ports and found
> that a "make deinstall; make reinstall" have worked, just like the port
> instructed me to do when it failed. I found it strange that portupgrade
> didn't do that for me.
>
> Having done that I restarted portupgrade and it would proceed a bit before
> stumbling to a halt again.
>
> Now I have reached the end of what I can fix manually, though. For some
> reason portupgrade stubbornly complains that:
>
> "** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
>         ! accessibility/atk (atk-1.4.1_1)       (port directory error)"
>
> And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new
> cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!?
>
> Can I get the atk ports from somewhere? Is it really needed? Why has it
> dissapeared and why is it still mentioned as a dependency then?
>
> If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't
> get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested
> in getting this to work.
>
> I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not
> succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it...
>
> Help?
>
> /andreas

Did you remember to execute 'pkgdb -Uu' after cvsup and before portupgrade?

Andrew Gould