Re: wrestling with b*rked package/ports collection
From: Kent Stewart (kstewart_at_owt.com)
Date: 03/31/04
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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:54:25 -0800
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 11:33 pm, paul beard wrote:
> I seem to be in a loop where expat and gettext will somehow not
> install in such a way as to serve as valid dependencies. I have
> rebuilt either directly or as part of building something else
> countless times, as well as installing from a package. For whatever
> reason, expat seems to be missing something:
>
> Error: shared library "expat.5" does not exist
>
> portupgrade -f, installing from source, installing from a package:
> all seem to fail. And since it and/or gettext are core dependencies
> for everything else, it seems, there's not much progress being made.
> Any other sage advice?
On both of them, you needed to portupgrade -rf. Now, I think your links
are broken. You might try pkgdb -F can connect the links to the latest
version. Then do the forced portupgrade.
Kent
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