Subject: Re: Really annoying package situation
To: Tracy Nelson <tnelson158@attbi.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/31/2002 20:16:15
	pkg_tools/pkgchk may help - 'pkg_chk -u' in particular.

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Tracy Nelson wrote:

> Has this happened to anyone else?  Am I missing some vital (or at least
> really handy) clue about pkgsrc?
>
> I recently did a sup.  I hadn't done this for a month or so.  When I tried
> to make the new mozilla (0.9.9), I got build errors saying various packages
> were installed, but newer versions were in pkgsrc.  Is there some command I
> can use that will automatically rebuild any necessary packages?  Right now
> I'm in some kind of infinite regression hell, rebuilding packages by hand,
> only to find out that they depend on other packages that need to be rebuilt,
> that in turn depend on others...  And imlib doesn't want to build at all, it
> keeps saying that it can't cd into a directory that doesn't exist.  [#define
> whining "sufficient"]
>
> Can I just do a "make deinstall reinstall" from /usr/pkgsrc?  I'm afraid to
> just try this, as I don't know if it will install every package on my
> system.  Thanks for any clues anyone can provide.
>
> Cheers!
> -- Tracy Nelson
>
>

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