portupgrade stale dependencies

[Andrew P.]

On 10/16/05, John DeStefano <john.destefano at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use portupgrade to update my installed ports. I ran into
> trouble with dependencies with ImageMagick and xorg-libraries, and I then
> followed the suggestion in UPDATING to delete XFree86 the imake-4 packages,
> and install the full xorg port.
>
> After all that, I got more dependency errors:
> 'Stale dependency: aalib-1.4.r5_1 --> imake-4.3.0_1 -- manually run 'pkgdb
> -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.'
>
> 'pkgdb -O' returned an invalid option error, and 'pkgdb -o aalib-1.4.r5_1'
> returned 'graphics/aalib'. I then ran 'pkgdb -F' to try and fix this (and
> many, many other) stale dependencies, but the error I got when trying to run
> portupgrade afterward simply changed the stale dependency error to '
> aalib-1.4.r5_1 --> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6'.
>
> How does one get around these dependency errors without destroying a system?
> Any good resources on dealing with this? I keep reading that I should just
> run 'pkgdb -F' but that only gets one so far.
>
> Thanks,
> ~John
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If you don't have a whole free week, consider
deinstalling every port on your system (with
pkg_deinstall preferably), installing cvsup,
updating your ports tree, installing portupgrade,
and portinstalling all the ports you really need.
That should only take a couple of days :-)