On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 18:49 +0200, Julien Gabel wrote: > >> I ran portupgrade -f linux_base-8 successfully and then ran portupgrade > >> -arR. The system reports stale dependencies and suggest I manually run > >> pkgdb -F to fix which I do. The first line of output reads: > >> Stale dependency: acroread-5.10_1,1 -> linux-expat-1.95.5_2 > >> (textproc/linux-expat): > >> linux-fontconfig-2.1_2 (score:31%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) > >> > >> If I understand Michael Lucas' "Cleaning Up Ports", acroread has > >> recorded linux-expat-1.95.5_2 as a dependency but linux-fontconfig-2.1_2 > >> is installed and it's asking if I want to have the entry in /var/db/pkg > >> point to linux-fontconfig-2.1_2 as the correct dependency. And the > >> answer is, "Damned if I know." > > > As previously mentioned, I resolved the original error: > > ELF binary type "3" not known > > by reinstalling linux_base-8 as recommended. Not sure about this issue > > but I will research further. Thanks again. > > > > The stale dependency issue was another story. I discovered, through > > comparing the dependency output from pkg_info -rR against the actual > > list of dependency data that some of the dependent files were missing. > > (I'm sure I must have deleted them inadvertently). Once they were > > identified and reinstalled everything was as it should have been. > > I don't know if this is a bug in the program or just me. At least now I > > know my next steps when I see a stale dependency prompt requesting me to > > choose between two apparently non-related packages. > > I think in this particular case, a forced upgrade/reinstall of the targeted > port and its dependancies must be all what you wanted: > # portupgrade -rRf acroread5 /* Or what the _name_ of the package is */ > That must explain why the deinstall/reinstall of acroread5 wasn't very helpful.
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