On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:56:42AM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > On Jan 14 at 16:17, Eric F Crist previously said: > > > I'm trying to install phpmyadmin from ports. I keep getting an error about > > PDF-Lite-6.0.0p1.tar.gz. The only files available now are 6.0.1. I've > > done > > a cvsup, but to no avail. > > Apologies for a re-post but this is fairly important, I think. > > On behalf of Eric and myself - since within a 24 hour period we both > encountered precisely the same issue: > > Has anyone else experienced this, and/or is there a known workaround?
This is one of two things. Either it's a symptom of your ports tree not being up to date. Maybe that's because the PDF-Lite developers have released a new version and for whatever reason, deleted the old one from their servers, and the ports tree simply hasn't caught up with the change yet. Maybe it's because you haven't been cvsup'ing the ports tree successfully, or maybe it's because the ports tree and the INDEX are out of synch. The other possibility is that you are trying to update a port, and you've got an up-to-date INDEX but that you haven't upgraded the dependencies first. The port version is currently at 6.0.1 -- but according to http://www.freshports.org/print/pdflib that update happened on 11th December 2004. As there hasn't been a month's worth of angry messages demanding "why doesn't this work?", it would seem that the problem is something you're doing wrong when updating. Note that it is not actually possible for one port to depend arbitrarily on a specific version of another one: in the cases where this is necessary, the usual practice is to create a whole separate port for the appropriate version of the dependency software. That isn't the case here. databases/phpMyAdmin depends on print/pecl-pdflib, which in turn depends on print/pdflib -- any of which ports can and will be updated as newer versions become available. The assumption and the only way ports are tested when updates are committed is that everything the port depends on is fully up to date with respect to the ports tree. That's why tools like portupgrade were developed initially: to make it easy to update systematically, updating the dependency ports before the dependent ports. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK
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