On 10/15/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 with ImageMagick and xorg-libraries, and I then > > followed the suggestion in UPDATING to delete XFree86 the imake-4 packages, > > and install the full xorg port. > > > > After all that, I got more dependency errors: > > '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, 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? > > Any good resources on dealing with this? I keep reading that I should just > > run 'pkgdb -F' but that only gets one so far. > > > > Thanks, > > ~John > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > If you don't have a whole free week, consider > deinstalling every port on your system (with > pkg_deinstall preferably), installing cvsup, > updating your ports tree, installing portupgrade, > and portinstalling all the ports you really need. > That should only take a couple of days :-) >
You're not kidding... between fixing these dependencies, trying to upgrade the ports, fixing more dependencies, upgrading ports, etc. ad nausem, I'm literally on my 9th straight day (obviously I don't mean 24/7... I have a day job and something of a life) of trying to get through this process. And all this just because I wanted to install mbstring (so phpMyadmin would stop barking about it), and I needed to perform some "simple updates" first... Any pointers, alternatives, etc., would be appreciated. BTW, I can no longer automatically update my ports list (I mean with 'portsdb -Uu' instead of fetching a premade index) due to a "chinese/acroread-chsfont failed" error. I see via Google that this port was removed due to a "security vulnerability", but I don't know how to remove it from my system, and UPDATING doesn't seem to mention it. Help? Thanks, ~John _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
