Try pkgdb -F greetz,
Peter On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:58:39 +0100 Christian Tischler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > 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: > ---------- > # 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 > -------- > 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 > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
