My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tree ist all screwed up. There are tons of wrong/failed/whatever dependencies and some ports wont work.
How can I repair this problem without an complete reinstall of the system? I have a lot of services running for my local net and a huge amount of configurations.
For exsample when I do /usr/ports/make index I get:
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# make index
Generating INDEX - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.5_5: "/usr/ports/print/acroread5" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete
===> print/apsfilter failed
*** Error code 1
1 error
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The second question is who to reinstall e.g. apache without uninstalling all the stuff that depends on it? e.g. When I did the portupgrade I obviously did something wrong, and now the xml module is missing, which is needed by some of my web aps.
I would be very glad if someone could point me out the nessesary steps to clear this mess.
I really thought about an complete reinstallation of the system, but everytime I install a new system I rn into dependency problems with the ports collection, as one app requires a version of an tool, but another dependence stops me from reinstalling the newer version. Is there an general guideline to prevent this?
thx a lot in advance
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