On 2019-11-01, Theodore Wynnychenko <t...@uchicago.edu> wrote: > Hello > > I just updated a system to current the other day. > > OpenBSD 6.6 GENERIC.MP#411 amd64 > > The last time I updated was probably 2-3 months ago. > > Anyway, when I went to updated packages (also following current/snapshots), > I got a number of "forward dependencies - don't match" notices and the > packages don't update.
What command are you running to update? The "don't match" are expected but (at least with "pkg_add -u" without restricting to a subset of packages) it shouldn't stop packages from updating anyway. Can you show the pkg_add command line you're using and complete output? i.e. run it under script(1) and send the typescript. > For example: > > gettext-0.19.8.1p3->gettext-runtime-0.20.1p0 forward dependencies: >| Dependencies of php-apache-7.1.27p0 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of gnupg-1.4.23p1 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of glib2-2.58.3p8 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of courier-imap-4.18.2p0 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of e2fsprogs-1.42.12p4 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of libgpg-error-1.36 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of python-3.6.8p0 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of samba-4.8.9 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of gdbm-1.16 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of popt-1.16p1 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of aspell-0.60.6.1p8 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of libpsl-0.20.2 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of wget-1.20.2 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of php-7.1.27 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of libidn-1.35 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of monitoring-plugins-2.2p7 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of python-2.7.16 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of courier-authlib-0.68.0p4 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of fetchmail-6.3.26p2 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of pecl56-pecl_http-2.5.6p3 on gettext-* don't match >| Dependencies of p11-kit-0.23.15p0 on gettext-* don't match This doesn't match "probably 2-3 months ago", php 5.6 and the associated pecl packages were removed before 6.5, and php-7.1.27 was from somewhere between 6.4 and 6.5. Not that this matters in itself, an update over that time period would still be expected to work, but if you're going to be updating infrequently you should definitely stick to releases+syspatch rather than -current. > Or (another example), with similar notices about forward dependencies not > matching: > # pkg_info | grep php-7 > php-7.1.27 server-side HTML-embedded scripting language > > And the mirror shows: > php-7.1.32.tgz > > I see that I can "force" the update with "pkg_add -u -D updatedepends". > > It seems like this should be safe to do, but it's not something I have done > before. > > While my system isn't "production" for a large multi-national, I do use it > as a file server and stuff, and it is working right now, and I don't want to > make it not work. > > So, before I did this, I was wondering if there was anything I should > consider/do to address this issue, other than just "forcing" the update? > > I guess, when at its core, I don't really completely understand what the > notice means, and how and why it happened. It means that you have a group of packages that all depend on a specific version of another package, so all must be updated in a single set rather than individually.
