portmaster -af fails due to dead port - HELP

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 05:20:19PM -0400, William Dudley wrote:
> That got me a lot further, but now the problem is this:
> 
> ===>>> All >> arj-3.10.22_4 (61/61)
> 
> ===>>> Currently installed version: arj-3.10.22_4
> ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/archivers/arj
> 
> ===>>> Launching 'make checksum' for archivers/arj in background
> ===>>> Gathering dependency list for archivers/arj from ports
> ===>>> Forcing update for /usr/ports/devel/autoconf
> ===>>> Launching child to reinstall autoconf~pkg-renamed~FEE5-2.69
> 
> ===>>> All >> arj-3.10.22_4 >> autoconf~pkg-renamed~FEE5-2.69 (62/62)
> 
> ===>>> No valid installed port, or port directory given
> ===>>> Try portmaster --help
> 
> 
> ===>>> Update for autoconf~pkg-renamed~FEE5-2.69 failed
> ===>>> Aborting update
> 
> ===>>> Update for arj-3.10.22_4 failed
> ===>>> Aborting update
> 
> I don't understand if this is a problem with arj or autoconf, but I don't
> want to delete arj, because
> other packages depend on it, and I don't want to delete them.  I tried "pkg
> lock arj" and that didn't
> seem to do anything, in that portmaster -af still wants to upgrade arj.

What's the output of 'pkg version -x autoconf'? Try to remove those
packages first and then run portmaster again!

-- 
Herbert