php dependency hell

[Bill Moran]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:15:38 -0600 (CST)
Philip Hallstrom <freebsd at philip.pjkh.com> wrote:

> > Plus, this...
> >
> > [msoulier at kanga php4-cli]$ sudo pkg_delete -n mod_php4-4.4.1,1
> > pkg_delete: package 'mod_php4-4.4.1,1' is required by these other packages
> > and may not be deinstalled:
> > cacti-0.8.6h_41
> > php4-ctype-4.4.1
> > php4-extensions-1.0
> > php4-mysql-4.4.1
> > php4-overload-4.4.1
> > php4-pcre-4.4.1
> > php4-posix-4.4.1
> > php4-session-4.4.1
> > php4-tokenizer-4.4.1
> > php4-xml-4.4.1
> > php4-zlib-4.4.1
> > pkg_delete: 1 package deletion(s) failed
> >
> > How do I resolve this? This looks like a huge mess.
> 
> If it were me, I'd remove all of those and start over.  Otherwise add a -f 
> option to pkg_delete to forcibly remove mod_php4.

You should be able to use portupgrade with the -o option to replace
mod_php4 with php4.  See the man page for portupgrade for examples
(the EXAMPLES section in particular).

In my experience, this works 90%+ of the time.  If this is a
production system, however, you'll do well to test on a scratch
system first.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.

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