On 2/20/06, Chandan Haldar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for the direction. All goes well until portupgrade asks me > to run 'pkgdb -F', > which asks me to resolve stale dependencies. I have a large number of > ports installed and > the dependencies seem somewhat intractable for manual resolution. Is > this the only way > to resolve the stale dependencies or am I as usual missing something :-( > ? From the pkgdb > manpage I could not understand the implication of the score and how that > helps me > select a new dependency...
If you have some spare time, consider reinstalling all the ports. # pkg_delete -a # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade # make install clean # portinstall firefox mplayer whatever (You only need to portinstall the leaf ports, everything else will be installed by dependencies, naturally) pkgdb -F is not a complicated process, but you'll have to learn things like 'fam and gamin do the same thing' or 'I don't have something, but I have something-core'. Pkgdb tries to guess, but it does a poor job at that. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
