Dealing with deprecated ports.

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Scott Ballantyne <sdb at ssr.com> wrote:

> I want to upgrade devel/icu. In updating tells me to use
>
> portmaster -r icu
>
> This starts to rebuild gnome2-fifth-toe which wants to rebuild straw.
>
> But straw is marked DEPRECATED and portmaster won't rebuild it. I
> pkg_delete doesn't want to delete it because gnome2-fifth-toe depends
> on it.
>
> I never know what to do in these situations. Can anyone pass me a
> clue
>

You can delete the "straw:${PORTSDIR}/net/straw \" line from the fifth toe
Makefile.  There must not be a lot of people using it because python 2.6 has
been standard for quite some time now, in fact 2.7 is.

You could just delete the two, straw and fifth toe, then run your portmaster
and abandon the fifth toe port as it's just a meta port for the apps it
provides.


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Adam Vande More