portupgrade stale dependencies

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Fri Oct 28 02:09:56 PDT 2005


On Friday, October 28, 2005 3:25:14 AM, "Andrew P." <infofarmer at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> On 10/28/05, Michael C. Shultz <ringworm01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:49, Eric F Crist wrote:
> > > On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:32 PM, John DeStefano wrote:
> > > > On 10/27/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> On 10/27/05, John DeStefano <john.destefano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>> After clearing out the ports, updating ports (with portsnap) and
> > > >>> source, and rebuilding the system and kernel... it seemed the
> > > >>> ultimate
> > > >>> problem was actually a dependency of the package to apache1.3.
> > > >>> After I
> > > >>> ran 'pkgdb -F' and "fixed" this dependency to point to apache2.1,
> > > >>> but
> > > >>> I still had trouble installing ports.
> > >
> > > At this point, what usually works for me is to:
> > >
> > > #cd /usr && rm -rf ./ports
> > >
> > > #mkdir ./ports && cvsup /root/ports-supfile
> > >
> > > The above will delete your ENTIRE ports tree, provided it's kept in /
> > > usr/ports and as long as you use cvsup (and your ports supfile is /
> > > root/ports-supfile as mine is).  When a whole bunch of ports stop
> > > working, I find this is the easiest thing to do.
> > >
> > > The other thing I do is run a cron job every week that updates, via
> > > cvsup, the ports tree.  About once a year I perform the above, mostly
> > > to clean out the crap.  Re-downloading your entire ports tree will be
> > > quicker if you don't use the ports-all tag and actually define which
> > > port segments you are interested in.  For example, there's no real
> > > reason to download all the x11/kde/gnome crap if you're doing this on
> > > a headless server that isn't going to serve X.
> > >
> > > HTH
> >
> > Replacing /usr/ports won't fix his problems, they reside in /var/db/pkg.
> > I may be a bit biased but I reaaly think John D. should try running
> > portmanager -u (ports/sysutils/portmanager).  Stale dependencies is a non
> > issue for portmanager.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> I don't think that stale dependencies are an issue for
> portupgrade as well, just add "-O" to the command-
> line.

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On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:

Personally, I feel that portmanager does a much better job of updating
without the problems that seem to crop up so often using portupgrade.

Just my 2¢.

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