On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:32:43 -0700, "Kent Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thursday 25 September 2003 04:12 pm, K Anderson wrote: > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > On Monday 22 September 2003 08:45 pm, cuddlesomebunny wrote: > > >>Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports? > > >> > > >>I am using FreeBSD 5.x-p2 and I am using ports and am having one > > >> hell of a time installing things. > > >> > > >>Here's what is happeng. > > >> > > >>I go to install ports and if it needs to get a dependency it goes > > >> and fetches it and becomes the usual compile process. Except that > > >> the dependency might already be installed with the exact version > > >> required and so most of the time the ports error out telling me I > > >> need to make deinstall on some dependency then make reinstall on > > >> it. [snip] > > >>I tried using the portupgrade stuffs but that just seems to make > > >>things worse overall. > > >> > > >>Anybody got any hints as to why it seems ports is having these > > >> sorts of problems? > > > > > > I don't have any idea what you problem is; however, there is an > > > ongoing discussion on -current with people having port problems. > > > What I remember is that the freeze has them locked and they can't > > > patch the ports to build and install on -current until the port > > > freeze is over. You might be caught by this problem or something > > > entirely different.
I'm obviously getting into this very late, but I'll hazard a couple of suggestions. Apologies if they've already been discussed/discarded. 1. If you haven't already, run portsdb -uU and pkgdb -F. 2. If it isn't among the "portupgrade stuff" you've already tried, the -fRN options in combination may work. Jud _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
