On 2005-04-07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[ ... ]
How do I end up having stale ports?
As time marches on :-)
I am guessing, that port becomes stale after running cvsup.
When a new version of a port is committed, anyone running the older version has a stale version. Whether you run cvsup or not doesn't affect whether a new version is available, but you are a lot more likely to notice dependency issues after running cvsup.
So, what exactly are we supposed to accomplish in respect to stale ports, when we run pkgdb -F (deinstall, some kind of fix, simple ignore)?
pkgdb tries to update the dependencies when new versions of a port appear. Running pkgdb by itself is not especially useful, although you can check and rebuild updated ports by hand. Consider portupgrade instead....
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