Re: handling stale dependencies

2008-05-03 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
. Best thing to do when you see pkgdb mentioning stale dependencies is hit ctrl-c hard, fast and often. Then scroll up to see what it did wrong and try to figure out how to correct it's mess. What is at present the png version installed on your system and could you show the output of: grep 'DEPORIGIN

Re: handling stale dependencies

2008-05-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: | Hello, | | I will appreciate your advice about how to best handle stale dependencies. Today I wanted to upgrade phpMyAdmin and I got a number of questions about stale dependencies. I eventually deleted all of them

Re: handling stale dependencies

2008-05-02 Thread Mel
On Friday 02 May 2008 07:20:30 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I will appreciate your advice about how to best handle stale dependencies. Today I wanted to upgrade phpMyAdmin and I got a number of questions about stale dependencies. I eventually deleted all of them, but does this mean I need

handling stale dependencies

2008-05-01 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I will appreciate your advice about how to best handle stale dependencies. Today I wanted to upgrade phpMyAdmin and I got a number of questions about stale dependencies. I eventually deleted all of them, but does this mean I need to upgrade ports which used this dependency (mailgraph

Stale Dependencies ??????

2006-06-24 Thread Robert Davison
I've recently had a few problems with KDE 3.5.1, so recently upgraded to 3.5.3 via the ports. I have a port upgrade script which is producing the following output when executed. Stale dependency: gconf2-2.14.0_2 -- openldap-client-2.2.30 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to

Re: Stale Dependencies ??????

2006-06-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:27, Robert Davison wrote: I've recently had a few problems with KDE 3.5.1, so recently upgraded to 3.5.3 via the ports. I have a port upgrade script which is producing the following output when executed. Stale dependency: gconf2-2.14.0_2 -- openldap-client-2.2.30

Re: Stale Dependencies ??????

2006-06-24 Thread vayu
On Jun 24, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:27, Robert Davison wrote: I've recently had a few problems with KDE 3.5.1, so recently upgraded to 3.5.3 via the ports. I have a port upgrade script which is producing the following output when executed. Stale

Re: Stale Dependencies ??????

2006-06-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday 24 June 2006 13:11, vayu wrote: On Jun 24, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote: //snip// I've had the hardest time understanding what pkgdb asks. This is the only article I've found which makes some sense to me:

Fixing stale dependencies with pkgdb

2006-05-03 Thread Duane Whitty
) or for all upcoming selections for all stale dependencies? Thanks, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-14 Thread Lists
Andrew wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works. You need

Long list of stale dependencies for tomcat55 port

2006-02-13 Thread Ashley Moran
-1.10_2 I don't even know what half of them do. I've deleted all the stale dependencies because freshports.org says the only run-time dependency is java/jdk14 (jdk15 on my machine). Is this right? Ashley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Long list of stale dependencies for tomcat55 port

2006-02-13 Thread Ceri Davies
mozilla-1.7.12_5,2 tiff-3.8.0 bitstream-vera-1.10_2 Nope. I don't even know what half of them do. I've deleted all the stale dependencies because freshports.org says the only run-time dependency is java/jdk14 (jdk15 on my machine). Is this right? According to make, yes: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-11 Thread RW
On Friday 10 February 2006 20:35, Andrew wrote: think I've got it now. I believe I was correct in thinking that portupgrade usually takes care of dependencies; the portion that I was missing was that pkgdb catches what discrepancies do appear between what is installed and what is required.

stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Andrew
Hello, I am trying to use a combination of portaudit and portupgrade to automatically maintain installed packages on my system, but portupgrade often hangs on stale dependencies. I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I guess I'm

stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Huff
Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works. You need to fix, not delete, the stale dependencies. This may take some effort

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works. You need to fix

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 10 February 2006 12:41, Andrew wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works. You need to fix

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 15:11 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I guess what is unclear to me is how I go about fixing the stale dependencies. I was under the impression that portupgrade would take care of the dependencies for a particular port, and the stale dependency

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Peter
--- Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's

Re: portssystem stale dependencies

2005-11-20 Thread Philip Lykke Carlsen
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

portssystem stale dependencies

2005-11-19 Thread Philip Lykke Carlsen
.. 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

Re: portssystem stale dependencies

2005-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
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

Re: portssystem stale dependencies

2005-11-19 Thread 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

Re: portssystem stale dependencies

2005-11-19 Thread Danny Pansters
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_

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P.

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-30 Thread John DeStefano
On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in cron to automate database and index maintenance?

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-30 Thread John DeStefano
On 10/30/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in cron to automate database and index maintenance? cvsup or portsnap, then portsdb -uUF. Work under any

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-29 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 28, 2005, at 7:31 PM, John DeStefano wrote: cd /usr/ports/www/apache20 make deinstall make clean make reinstall See what happens. Talk about strange: # cd /usr/ports/www/apache20/ # make deinstall === Deinstalling for www/apache20 === apache not installed, skipping # make -V

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-29 Thread Eric F Crist
I ended up deinstalling that apache installation (which I was not keen on doing), and installing the apache20 port (which was the same version (2.0.55) as the apache2 port ?), and, thankfully, it's working fine. I'm also now able to run both 'pkgdb -F'and 'portsdb -Uu' without ANY errors (except

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Andrew P.
/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

Re[2]: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday, October 28, 2005 3:25:14 AM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies Wrote these words of wisdom: 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

Re: Re[2]: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/28/05, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I feel that portmanager does a much better job of updating without the problems that seem to crop up so often using portupgrade. I've always been scared off by the comparatively young age of portmanager. Besides, portupgrade

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Michael C. Shultz
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

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Michael C. Shultz
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

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread John DeStefano
/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 Biased indeed. ;) I tried it, and it did work for some ports

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread John DeStefano
. should try running portmanager -u (ports/sysutils/portmanager). Stale dependencies is a non issue for portmanager. -Mike Biased indeed. ;) I tried it, and it did work for some ports, but not all. Here's the report output of a second run-through: status report finished

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Eric F Crist
status report finished == == percentDone-=0 = 100 - ( 100 * ( QTY_outOfDatePortsDb-=1 / TOTAL_outOfDatePortsDb-=1 ) ) upgrade 0.3.0_0 info: ignoring apache-2.0.48, reason: failed during (2) make

Fwd: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Michael C. Shultz
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies Date: Friday 28 October 2005 15:02 From: Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 28 October 2005 13:29, John DeStefano wrote: On 10/28/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread John DeStefano
On 10/28/05, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: status report finished == == percentDone-=0 = 100 - ( 100 * ( QTY_outOfDatePortsDb-=1 / TOTAL_outOfDatePortsDb-=1 ) ) upgrade 0.3.0_0 info: ignoring apache-2.0.48,

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 28 October 2005 17:31, John DeStefano wrote: On 10/28/05, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: status report finished == == percentDone-=0 = 100 - ( 100 * ( QTY_outOfDatePortsDb-=1 /

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 28 October 2005 19:51, John DeStefano wrote: On 10/28/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 17:31, John DeStefano wrote: On 10/28/05, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: status report finished

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread John DeStefano
On 10/28/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 17:31, John DeStefano wrote: On 10/28/05, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: status report finished == == percentDone-=0 = 100

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/27/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip... 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

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-27 Thread John DeStefano
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

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-27 Thread Eric F Crist
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

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-27 Thread Michael C. Shultz
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

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-18 Thread Andrew P.
.' 'pkgdb -O' returned an invalid option error, and 'pkgdb -o aalib-1.4.r5_1' returned 'graphics/aalib'. I then ran 'pkgdb -F' to try and fix this (and many, many other) stale dependencies, but the error I got when trying to run portupgrade afterward simply changed the stale dependency

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-17 Thread John DeStefano
-1.4.r5_1' returned 'graphics/aalib'. I then ran 'pkgdb -F' to try and fix this (and many, many other) stale dependencies, but the error I got when trying to run portupgrade afterward simply changed the stale dependency error to ' aalib-1.4.r5_1 -- XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6'. How does one

Re[2]: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-16 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, October 15, 2005 9:21:00 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies Wrote these words of wisdom: On 10/16/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use portupgrade to update my installed ports. I ran into trouble with dependencies

portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-15 Thread John DeStefano
: 'Stale dependency: aalib-1.4.r5_1 -- imake-4.3.0_1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.' 'pkgdb -O' returned an invalid option error, and 'pkgdb -o aalib-1.4.r5_1' returned 'graphics/aalib'. I then ran 'pkgdb -F' to try and fix this (and many, many other) stale dependencies

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
' to try and fix this (and many, many other) stale dependencies, but the error I got when trying to run portupgrade afterward simply changed the stale dependency error to ' aalib-1.4.r5_1 -- XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6'. How does one get around these dependency errors without destroying a system

Re: stale dependencies

2004-08-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mark Withers wrote: Hello everyone! I've been using FBSD for a few years now, but am not sure as to what a 'stale dependency' is... I am receiving an error message with ymessenger pkg that it has stale dependencies and to use 'pkgdb -F' to fix or -O to force. I'm a bit inexperienced when it comes

stale dependencies

2004-08-21 Thread Mark Withers
Hello everyone! I've been using FBSD for a few years now, but am not sure as to what a 'stale dependency' is... I am receiving an error message with ymessenger pkg that it has stale dependencies and to use 'pkgdb -F' to fix or -O to force. I'm a bit inexperienced when it comes to repairing

Re: stale dependencies

2004-08-21 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 21 August 2004 2:22 am, Mark Withers wrote: Hello everyone! I've been using FBSD for a few years now, but am not sure as to what a 'stale dependency' is... I am receiving an error message with ymessenger pkg that it has stale dependencies and to use 'pkgdb -F' to fix or -O

How to properly handle stale dependencies with pkgdb -F?

2004-03-23 Thread Paul D. Schmidt
Hello, I've run into problems (most often with p5-* ports) with stale dependencies. I don't know how to solve them other than deleting them, which I know is the wrong way to do it. Currently, I have 2 things I'm not sure how to handle: % sudo pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry

Re: How to properly handle stale dependencies with pkgdb -F?

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Paul D. Schmidt wrote: Hello, I've run into problems (most often with p5-* ports) with stale dependencies. I don't know how to solve them other than deleting them, which I know is the wrong way to do it. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Michael's article's been

Resolved: How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-17 Thread Robert H. Perry
mentioned are installed except dockbook-xsl-1.62.3. In addition, the sgmlformat port is not installed either. I always understood that stale dependencies indicated that a change was necessary. In this situation, the 6 dependencies in question, including the port itself, weren't even registered

Re: How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-09 Thread Lee Harr
I think if it were me, I would check to see if the docbook-310 port were still installed correctly, and if not, install it and then try pkgdb -F again. Not sure I understanad the need to examine docbook-310. When I run pkg_info -ro sgmlformat-1.7_2, I get the following: Information for

Re: How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-09 Thread Robert H. Perry
a second time that things became clearer. You wrote: The dependency is recorded as docbook-3.1_2 and it does not see that package, so it is suggesting the package it believes is the closest match. (dockbook-xsl-1.62.3) I always understood that stale dependencies

Re: How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-09 Thread Lee Harr
are installed except dockbook-xsl-1.62.3. In addition, the sgmlformat port is not installed either. I always understood that stale dependencies indicated that a change was necessary. In this situation, the 6 dependencies in question, including the port itself, weren't even registered or installed yet. I

How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-08 Thread Robert H. Perry
Hi, Just ran my weekly cvsup program followed by portsbd -Uu. Tried running portsversion -l and received a message indicating that I should run pkgdb -F to deal with a stale dependency. Note following: Stale dependency: sgmlformat-1.7_2 - docbook-3.1_2 (textproc/docbook-310):

How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-08 Thread Lee Harr
Just ran my weekly cvsup program followed by portsbd -Uu. Tried running portsversion -l and received a message indicating that I should run pkgdb -F to deal with a stale dependency. Note following: Stale dependency: sgmlformat-1.7_2 - docbook-3.1_2 (textproc/docbook-310): docbook-xsl-1.62.3

Re: How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-08 Thread Robert H. Perry
Lee Harr wrote: Just ran my weekly cvsup program followed by portsbd -Uu. Tried running portsversion -l and received a message indicating that I should run pkgdb -F to deal with a stale dependency. Note following: Stale dependency: sgmlformat-1.7_2 - docbook-3.1_2 (textproc/docbook-310):