Portupgrade woes ...

[Kiffin Gish]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> writes:
> 
> > I want to find out which ports need updating by running 'portupgrade
> > -arR' "<". However, I am getting the following error message:
> > 
> > Stale dependency: ImageMagick-6.2.5.5_3 --> lcms-1.14_1,1 -- manually
> > run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
> > 
> > As suggested, I run 'pkgdb -F' and after a couple minutes, it seems to
> > have fixed a number of problems.
> > 
> > Rerunning portupgrade results in the same error as above.
> > 
> > I tried rebuilding the port as follows:
> > 
> > cd /usr/ports
> > make fetchindex
> > portsdb -u
> > 
> > And then retrying the above, but this doesn;t help either.
> > 
> > Help! How can I break out of this viscous circle and become a sane
> > FreeBSD-er again?! 
> 
> What a sticky situation.  
> 
> First of all, I think you would do best right now to build your own
> index.  'portsdb -uU' will take a while, but it will match exactly
> what you have installed, which will probably help getting the
> dependency comparisons correct.  
> 
> Also, run 'pkgdb -F' until it stops reporting problems.

Thanks for the tip, but as luck has it, I just happened to figure out
another (better?) solution.

I simply de-installed ImageMagick using pkg_delete and then rebuilt it
by doing a make install clean.

And that worked, believe it or not!

-- 
Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl>