difficulties remove stale dependency

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote:

> Noah wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> any clues on how to cure this situation.  It appears I am having 
>> difficulties removing stale dependencies.
>> 
>> access1# portupgrade -a
>> Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_2 <-- emacs-21.3_9 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' 
>> to fix, or specify -O to force.
>> access1# portupgrade -
>> access1# pkgdb -F
>> --->  Checking the package registry database
>> access1# pkgdb -FO
>> --->  Checking the package registry database
>> access1# portupgrade -a
>> Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_2 <-- emacs-21.3_9 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' 
>> to fix, or specify -O to force.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Noah
>
> Hi Noah,
>
> I get this a lot on one of my systems. Just that one - no idea why. Anyway, I 
> find including option -O allows most things to ignore stale links, including 
> portupgrade.
>
> Oh - did you try installing portupgrade-devel and not portupgrade? That helped 
> me out of a hole once and now I use it for everything.
>
> HtH,
> Adam J Richardson

Simply put, emacs is a trouble maker with all of the versions that are available in the source tree.

I think that porters are working on improving the system in place.

-Garrett