unintelligible questions from pkgdb -F [ part of 5.2portupgrade hairball ]

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Jay Moore wrote:

>On Tuesday 06 April 2004 04:39 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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>>What this means is that the eel2-2.4.1 port claims to have a
>>dependency on the gtk-2.2.4_1 port, but no such port is installed --
>>it's listed in the file:
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<snipped some of Matthew's Amazing stuff>

>Amazing! That makes sense... why, oh why isn't it in the man page for pkgdb?
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>The rest of your response is most helpful also. I think rather than adding a 
>bunch of clutter here I'll follow up on each of them separately.
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>Thanks,
>Jay
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I doubt I can improve on Matthew's post (he is very
helpful and knowledgeable), but I've found this to
be helpful:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

In which Michael Lucas ("Absolute BSD") tells what to
say to `pkgdb -F'  ....

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.