Reparing FreeBSD ports tree.
Peter Harmsen
pharmsen at horizon.nl
Tue Jan 25 04:16:57 PST 2005
Try pkgdb -F
greetz,
Peter
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:58:39 +0100
Christian Tischler <mail at myunix.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a
> portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tree ist all
> screwed up. There are tons of wrong/failed/whatever dependencies and
> some ports wont work.
> How can I repair this problem without an complete reinstall of the
> system? I have a lot of services running for my local net and a huge
> amount of configurations.
> For exsample when I do /usr/ports/make index I get:
> ----------
> # make index
> Generating INDEX - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.5_5:
> "/usr/ports/print/acroread5" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete
> ===> print/apsfilter failed
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error
> --------
> The second question is who to reinstall e.g. apache without uninstalling
> all the stuff that depends on it? e.g. When I did the portupgrade I
> obviously did something wrong, and now the xml module is missing, which
> is needed by some of my web aps.
>
> I would be very glad if someone could point me out the nessesary steps
> to clear this mess.
>
> I really thought about an complete reinstallation of the system, but
> everytime I install a new system I rn into dependency problems with the
> ports collection, as one app requires a version of an tool, but another
> dependence stops me from reinstalling the newer version. Is there an
> general guideline to prevent this?
>
> thx a lot in advance
>
> Christian
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