On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:44 am, you wrote:
Michael C. Shultz wrote:
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:58 am, Christian Tischler 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
In /usr/ports/MOVED,
"print/acroread5|print/acroread|2004-12-23|last Acrobat Reader port remaining"
which means this directory has been moved.
My advice is to run sysutils/portmanager and NEVER ever run pkgdb -F if you want to keep your dependencies from getting messed up.
portmanager will automatically remove your installed print/acroread5 because it has been removed from cvs, it does not use INDEX files so they will become a non issue for you as well.
The only way to protect your "large amount of configurations" is to back them up! You never know when a port is going to over write a configuration file so if they are real important to you, back them up.
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Is portmanager now the generally accepted way of keeping your ports updated?
There are people who prefer portmanager, but many have never tried it and still recommend portupgrade. Here is a link with some information
and comments about portmanager.
http://bsdnews.com/index.php3?story_start=5
Also, what's this "extract" thing I have seen mentioned in relation to this?
Chris
What extract thing? Be more specific please.
-Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Thanks for the link. I have been using portupgrade for a while now and find it very usable. I shall give portmanager a shot on my other system.
Don't worry about the extract thing. I did some research and found what I was after....it did have nothing to do with portmanager. :)
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