Re: portssystem stale dependencies
Sunday 20 November 2005 03:18 skrev RW: On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given port/package without having met all the dependencies.. That's not entirely true, it's really only portupgrade and it's associated tools that have a serious problem with stale dependencies. Portmanager is much more forgiving, as is direct make install installation. Well, then I think that I'll give portmanager a try.. thanks :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portssystem stale dependencies
.. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given port/package without having met all the dependencies.. just how does it _forget_ that it just installed some package?.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portssystem stale dependencies
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:37:45AM +0100, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given port/package without having met all the dependencies.. just how does it _forget_ that it just installed some package?.. This portupgrade error condition happens when you install/deinstall/modify ports by some other means than by using the portupgrade tools. It's not that it forgets, but that portupgrade never knew about the changes in the first place, so you have to do some work to teach it. Kris pgpzcofWioMg9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: portssystem stale dependencies
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given port/package without having met all the dependencies.. That's not entirely true, it's really only portupgrade and it's associated tools that have a serious problem with stale dependencies. Portmanager is much more forgiving, as is direct make install installation. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portssystem stale dependencies
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given port/package without having met all the dependencies.. just how does it _forget_ that it just installed some package?.. It doesn't forget but it does submit. These are tools that come with portupgrade. During pkgdb -F you can always delete (CTRL+D) any dependency you don't like. Just force it if you have to. Almost always it comes from having a certain combination of ports installed where an actual update by version by one port doesn't really matter but the portupgrade system has it registered and so thinks it may do so. In other cases it just may or may not matter but usually you're running a portupgrade -a anyway so it'll be settled when done. In other cases if something's left behind or broken or so, deleting the dependency (and perhaps it's picked pu again later at your portupgrading) will be fine also. Just delete the pkgdb -F problem deps :) Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
