Fwd: Re: libICE 1.0.7 upgrade yields attempt to load network entity error

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Troy wrote:

>> You have some that aren't the default of the main docbook metaport, and 
>> others are missing.  May be that other related things are missing, too. A 
>> start would be resetting the config of the metaport and installing it again 
>> to bring in all the missing dependencies.
>>
>>   # cd /usr/ports/textproc/docbook
>>   # make rmconfig && make deinstall clean install
>
> That was it!  You solved it.  I'm not sure how/what you can do for others 
> that run into this but there was nothing that gave me any clues from 
> searching how to get these ports to install right.  I don't know when the 
> docbook defaults changed but I've had this platform running for years and it 
> got to those options without me making any changes from the defaults when 
> they were installed.
>
> One last unrelated question, I have the following port installed and it's 
> marked IGNORE.  Is this a necessary port or can I manually delete it?
>
> xf86-input-fpit-1.3.0_2 <   needs updating (port has 1.3.0_3)

Unless you have a Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet computer or a similar model, 
that's probably unnecessary and can be uninstalled.