Broken port tree: how to repair ?

Joel rees at ddcom.co.jp
Sun Apr 10 18:31:07 PDT 2005


> > > delete /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
> > > do a cvsup of your port tree ...
> > > do a "make fetchindex" under /usr/ports
> > > now, check portversion -l'<'
> > > it should reconstruct everything
> >  
> > And what about stalled dependancies ?
> 
> What is a stalled dependency?

Or, perhaps more to the point, how does a dependency, stalled or
otherwise, survive a broken ports tree?

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