[kde-freebsd] kde ports portupgrade dependency problems

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Fri Aug 29 19:50:53 CEST 2008


On Friday 29 August 2008 10:21:56 Andy Fawcett wrote:
> On Friday 29 August 2008 20:41:50 David Southwell wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > It seems recent versions of kde fail on initial build with
> > portupgrade -a because dependencies are taken in an incorrect order.
> > To resolve the difficulties repeated portupgrade -a commands are
> > required.
> >
> > For example quickshow is installed but ports that depend upon
> > quickshow fail because they were attempted before quickshow was
> > upgraded.
> >
> > This is notr a serious problem -- just a bit of a hassle.
>
> That probably is a portupgrade bug in that case.

I remain to be convinced on that one because it only happens with kde and the 
problem seems to be getting worse with every kde upgrade. I had a few 
problems with 8>9 but now 9>10 is much worse so I am suspecting it is 
peculiar to kde. 

Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

David


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