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
problem was actually a dependency of the package to apache1.3.
After I
ran 'pkgdb -F' and "fixed" this dependency to point to apache2.1,
but
I still had trouble installing ports.
At this point, what usually works for me is to:
#cd /usr && rm -rf ./ports
#mkdir ./ports && cvsup /root/ports-supfile
The above will delete your ENTIRE ports tree, provided it's kept in /
usr/ports and as long as you use cvsup (and your ports supfile is /
root/ports-supfile as mine is). When a whole bunch of ports stop
working, I find this is the easiest thing to do.
The other thing I do is run a cron job every week that updates, via
cvsup, the ports tree. About once a year I perform the above, mostly
to clean out the crap. Re-downloading your entire ports tree will be
quicker if you don't use the ports-all tag and actually define which
port segments you are interested in. For example, there's no real
reason to download all the x11/kde/gnome crap if you're doing this on
a headless server that isn't going to serve X.
HTH
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