How to fix stale dependencies?

Paul D. Schmidt pds at uberhacker.org
Mon Mar 29 15:22:12 PST 2004


I seem to have fixed this (at least got the problem to go away) by 
installing the security/openssl port...is that what this error message 
was telling me to do?

-Paul

Paul D. Schmidt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> While doing a "portversion -l '<'" on a new box this morning, I got 
> this error:
>
> Stale dependency: portupgrade-20040325_1 --> openssl-0.9.7d --      
> manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
>
> What is the proper way to fix this error within pkgdb -F? (other than 
> deleting the depencency)
>
> I know these sometimes come up because packages have moved, but 
> security/openssl is still there...
>
> (It has the same stale dependency (on openssl) for ruby if I skip the 
> first one too...)
>
> Thanks,
> -Paul
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