Re: pkgdb -F questions

From: Lars Eighner (eighner_at_io.com)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 04:29:45 -0600

In our last episode,
<slrncqb9ut.kfu.kkenn@xor.obsecurity.org>,
the lovely and talented Kris Kennaway
broadcast on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:

> On 2004-11-25, Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> wrote:
>>
>> When pkgdb -F says:
>>
>> Stale dependency: foo -> bar
>>
>> What does that mean? Which is the dependent, foo or bar?
>> (i.e. did foo used to need bar or did bar used to need foo?)

> port foo depends on port bar, which you do not have installed. This
> is commonly because you either forced the installation or
> deinstallation of a port or package when it warned you that it
> couldn't find all of its dependencies. It may also be because you
> haven't upgraded ports correctly in the past, and dependency
> information has been lost.

Could it be because bar was part of world and not installed
from a port (i.e. sendmail, compat 4.x, etc.)? 

-- 
Lars Eighner -finger for geek code-  eighner@io.com http://www.io.com/~eighner/
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