On 10/28/05, Michael C. Shultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:49, Eric F Crist wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:32 PM, John DeStefano wrote: > > > On 10/27/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 10/27/05, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> After clearing out the ports, updating ports (with portsnap) and > > >>> source, and rebuilding the system and kernel... it seemed the > > >>> ultimate > > >>> problem was actually a dependency of the package to apache1.3. > > >>> After I > > >>> ran 'pkgdb -F' and "fixed" this dependency to point to apache2.1, > > >>> but > > >>> I still had trouble installing ports. > > > > At this point, what usually works for me is to: > > > > #cd /usr && rm -rf ./ports > > > > #mkdir ./ports && cvsup /root/ports-supfile > > > > The above will delete your ENTIRE ports tree, provided it's kept in / > > usr/ports and as long as you use cvsup (and your ports supfile is / > > root/ports-supfile as mine is). When a whole bunch of ports stop > > working, I find this is the easiest thing to do. > > > > The other thing I do is run a cron job every week that updates, via > > cvsup, the ports tree. About once a year I perform the above, mostly > > to clean out the crap. Re-downloading your entire ports tree will be > > quicker if you don't use the ports-all tag and actually define which > > port segments you are interested in. For example, there's no real > > reason to download all the x11/kde/gnome crap if you're doing this on > > a headless server that isn't going to serve X. > > > > HTH > > Replacing /usr/ports won't fix his problems, they reside in /var/db/pkg. > I may be a bit biased but I reaaly think John D. should try running > portmanager -u (ports/sysutils/portmanager). Stale dependencies is a non > issue for portmanager. > > -Mike > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
I don't think that stale dependencies are an issue for portupgrade as well, just add "-O" to the command- line. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
