A portupgrade question

[Garrett Cooper]

Ian Moore wrote:

>On Monday 24 April 2006 22:38, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
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>>Ian Moore wrote:
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>>>Yes, that would fix the problem, but I'm just curious about what causes
>>>the problem in the first place, given that portupgrade rarely seems to
>>>have these kind of problems.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>      
>>>
>>ls -l /var/db/pkg/mysql-client*    ??
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>total 28
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    36B Feb 26 09:08 +COMMENT
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4.0K Apr 23 09:39 +CONTENTS
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   167B Feb 26 09:08 +DESC
>-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    15K Feb 26 09:08 +MTREE_DIRS
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    57B Apr 23 23:50 +REQUIRED_BY
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I used to always have trouble compiling packages with -ar or -aR 
exclusively, but running it like -aRr works like a charm every time 
(unless the thing gets into a deadlock from dependencies being removed, 
ie php, apache, and mysql >_<).
-Garrett