user error with pkgdb -F
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Fri May 25 20:14:36 UTC 2007
David J Brooks writes:
> I screwed up... at the end of my portupgrade -a following the
> Xorg upgrade. kdemultimedia was left with one stale dependency,
> akode-plugins-jack. So I ran pkgdb -F to pull it in if it had
> somehow been missed. The script offered akode-plugins-xiph with a
> score of 77%. I checked the version numbers, and they matched, so
> I hit 'a' for all and instantly realized I had done the wrong
> thing. Now everything that was depending on the jack plugin wants
> xiph instead. Is there a less painful way to fix this than wiping
> the pkgdb and starting from scratch?
Have you looked at the pkgdb man-page? I see at least one
thing ther I would be willing (after backing up pkgdb.db) to
experiment with.
Robert Huff
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