* Sebastian Kayser <[email protected]> wrote:
> i am just about to upgrade some boxes running with current/ and on one
> of those boxes pkgutil won't proceed because of a possible cyclic
> dependency in the catalog.
> 
> # pkgutil -u
> Looking for packages that can be upgraded...
> Parsing catalog, may take a while...
> Loop protection limit (25000) hit. There's probably a cyclic dependency
> in the catalog.
> 
> # pkgutil -v
> 1.8

In case anyone else is running into this issue, Peter pointed out a
possible tweak which solved the problem for me. Upon setting
maxpkglist=100000 in pkgutil.conf the issue went away and i could
properly upgrade the affected machine.

Sebastian
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