well, technically, all you need to do is pkg_deinstall -f pkg_tarup-\*,
as that will remove the portupgrade dependency, which is only a stale
leftover anyhow. you're correct that portupgrade won't handle stuff just
disappearing, but that's what pkgdb -F is there for. pkgdb's Fixit mode
is VERY powerful, but rather confusing to use.
-Adam
>> (09.20.2002 @ 1449 PST): Kevin Oberman said, in 0.7K: <<
> pkg_tarup is gone as a port. The easiest way to fix this is to:
> 1. pkg_delete -f pkg_tarup-\*
> 2. pkg_delete portupgrade -\*
> 3. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
> 4. make install clean
> 5. pkgdb -F
>
> That should do the trick. portupgrade does not really handle the
> removal of dependencies when the depended package simply goes away,
> even when they are dependencies of portupgrade, itself.
>
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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>> end of "Re: portupgrade of portupgrade fails with "The port directory for
>'sysutils/pkg_tarup' does not exist"" from Kevin Oberman <<
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