Re: Reparing FreeBSD ports tree.

From: Peter Harmsen (pharmsen_at_horizon.nl)
Date: 01/25/05

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    Try pkgdb -F

    greetz,

     Peter

    On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:58:39 +0100
    Christian Tischler <mail@myunix.net> 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
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