On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:24:40PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: > Before a fairly major system upgrade I have done "portsdb -Uu" and > "pkgdb -F". Next step, upgrade portupgrade, which entails doing smart > things to also painlessly upgrade to ruby 1.8. BUT .. > > I must have misunderstood what pkgdb requires when it asks about stale > dependencies because at the penultimate stage: > #portupgrade -f lang/ruby18 > Stale dependency: ruby-1.8.1_2 --> openssl-0.9.7d -- manually run 'pkgdb > -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. > > I had already DONE pkgdb -F :-( > Tried pkgdb -Fu, which rebuilt the database, but it made no difference. > Incidentally there IS no "O" option for pkgdb listed in the docs. > > Looked diligently for detailed guidance on pkgdb (Complete FBSD 3rd & > 4th Eds, Handbook, man page, FBSD Diary) but found nothing very > helpful. The Diary " As near as I can tell, this is more art than > science." and "Or you can just "know". were MOST discouraging. :-( > > Can someone please point me in the right direction? > Thanks.
Well, the dependency on openssl-0.9.7d indicates you've installed
openssl via ports. Perhaps. However, openssl-0.9.7d was imported
into 4-STABLE over the weekend, and it's been in 5-CURRENT for a
couple of weeks. Which means that if you're going to be updating to
the latest 4-STABLE you can delete any openssl port[*] you've got
installed and also delete that dependency.
You can also delete that dependency if you've never installed openssl
from ports and have no intention of doing so -- so long as you're up
to date with the security patches, you'll be running a version of
openssl with all of the known holes patched, even if it doesn't carry
absolutely the latest version number.
Otherwise, you should be able to just update the security/openssl port
(which will get you openssl-0.9.7d nowadays) and everything will be
back to normal.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] Lest this leads to much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I should
stress here that you'll also have to recompile any ports that link
against the OpenSSL shlibs so that they pick up the shlibs from the
base system.
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