On 08/25/2010 21:27, Chuck Robey wrote: > I have an interesting thing here: I seem to have found an endless loop in > portmanager. It's *entirely* possible that I'm myself causing this, so I'll > explain, and if you can come up with any hints, I'll be happy to test them, > because I really do like using portmanager. > > What my goal is, is to update the qt4 port, but one of the dependencies it > finds > is x11/libX11 ... and two (the only 2) dependencies it finds unsatisfied for > libX11 are x11/libXau and x11/libXtrans. Trouble is, it endlessly (and > seemingly quite successfully) rebuilds both of these, but them can't seem to > find either to mark them as satisfied (to move onlto building libX11). I > tried > to cd into both of these dirs and build them directly using make > clean/package/clean, and it succeeds fine, but portmanager *still* can't get > past them. > > My ports are up to date, no more than a week old, I use cvs to keep the > sources > nicely up to date. I'd really appreciate any suggestions you can offer.
CC: <The maintainer> of ports-mgmt/portmanager is a good start. Maybe He/She can give you some insight of the working of portmanager. I am not sure how portmanager keeps the package database up to date but sometimes dependencies can get messed up in the database that can cause a loop and if not handled correctly by the upgrade process can cause a lot of grief. In portmaster you could be using --check-depends and in portupgrade you could use -Ffu but you don't seem to be using any of the suggested ports-mgmt upgrade utilities so good luck. ``emphasis on portmaster'' -- written by dougb@, so you know it works!. Regards, -- jhell,v _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
