portupgrade, xfce4 problems

[Mel Flynn]

On Saturday 18 April 2009 00:27:29 Sniper wrote:

> --$ sudo pkgdb -F
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> Stale origin: 'x11/libxfce4mcs': perhaps moved or obsoleted.
> -> The port 'x11/libxfce4mcs' was removed on 2009-03-02 because:
>         "got obsolete by xfce 4.6 update"
> -> Hint:  libxfce4mcs-4.4.3 is required by the following package(s):
>         Terminal-0.2.8.3

<snip list>

> -> Hint: checking for overwritten files...
>  -> No files installed by libxfce4mcs-4.4.3 have been overwritten by other
> packages.
> Deinstall libxfce4mcs-4.4.3 ? [no] y
                                    ^^^
> --->  Deinstalling 'libxfce4mcs-4.4.3'
> pkg_delete: package 'libxfce4mcs-4.4.3' is required by these other packages
> and may not be deinstalled:

You can tell the portupgrade devs that detecting an installed package has 
dependants, asking the user to uninstall it and subsequently calling a command 
that b0rks out because the installed package has dependants, is not very user 
friendly.

To correct it, pkg_delete -f libxfce4mcs-4.4.3, make -C /usr/ports/ports-
mgmt/portmaster install.
portmaster /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/xfce4

Ok, that last bit was mean, but yea, /usr/ports/UPDATING explains the 
procedure.
-- 
Mel