Contents of freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 123, Issue 3 (Re: What's the bright idea? fam -> gamin)

[Trix Farrar]

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Peter wrote:
> > --- Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>On 2/6/06, Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>> >>>--- Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>>>My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all
back
>>>> >>>>to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I
>>>> >>>>portupgrade?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>Remove fam by force and then install gamin.
>> >>
>> >>I don't want gamin, what was wrong with fam for fam?
>> >>
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On the off chance that someone hasn't helped you already (or you haven't
yet found the answer):

The way I got past this was to add the following line to /etc/make.conf:

WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam

Next, run 'pkgdb -F'.  When it prompts with the stale dependency
message, set the dependency to your installed fam package.  (I cheat and
just use fam<TAB> and let the completion catch it for me.  Be sure to
tell it to replace All so you don't get prompted again.

The /etc/make.conf line will keep you from getting into that pickle again.

Don't be too nervous about replacing this dependency because gamin
supports a subset of fam's features, so you won't lose anything.


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