[kde-freebsd] kde ports portupgrade dependency problems

[Andy Fawcett]

On Friday 29 August 2008 20:50:53 David Southwell wrote:
> 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?

Yes, and on systems without a trace of KDE installed. I'm rapidly 
getting to the point of dropping portupgrade here.


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