portupgrade (pkgdb) question (2nd try)

[epilogue]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:52:57 -0400
"Bobb Shires" <bobb at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> (dang webmail thing mangled my message. Sorry. Trying again)
> 
> pkgdb -F is asking me a question I don't understand. 
> What should I do here? 
> 
> === root at voyager /root/supfiles 24 -> # pkgdb -F
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> Stale origin: 'devel/autoconf257': perhaps moved or obsoleted.
> -> The port 'devel/autoconf257' was removed on 2004-07-01 because:
>         "autotools cleanup"
> -> Hint:  autoconf-2.57_1 is required by the following package(s):
>         kdevelop-3.0.3
>         kde-3.2.2
>         automake-1.7.5_1
> -> Hint: checking for overwritten files...
>  -> No files installed by autoconf-2.57_1 have been overwritten by
>  other packages.
> Deinstall autoconf-2.57_1 ? [no]

i believe that this article may help you to feel more comfortable with
such questions:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

while you're there, bookmark:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/q/all_bsd_articles

...and spend a while.  you will likely find more than one helpful and
informative article.


hth,
epi

> This is a fresh installation of 4.10-REL immediately 
> following a cvsup. Thanks. 
> 
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