ports/151510: ports-mgmt/portupgrade: circular dependencies breaks pkgdb -L

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On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, arved at FreeBSD.org wrote:

|Synopsis: ports-mgmt/portupgrade: circular dependencies breaks pkgdb -L
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|State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended
|State-Changed-By: arved
|State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 25 11:39:08 UTC 2011
|State-Changed-Why: 
|As rene wrote, this is not a portupbrade bug per se
|
|http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=151510


	I still feel that this kind of cirularity
	should be detectable by portupgrade pkgdb,
	and some kind of evasion strategy taken -
	perhaps with user dialog - thus the user
	would no longer crippled by such loops to
	the point where the pkgdb system becomes
	completely unuseable.


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