ports with leftovers

Peter Boosten peter at boosten.org
Sat Dec 20 07:59:57 EST 2008


Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 09:01 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote:
>> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> This sounds like a stale package problem.  This can occur when package A
> was built many months ago on an older OS.  It is now used as a
> dependency for package B, but things have either changed in the OS, or
> the package was bad to begin with.  Clearing out the stale packages, and
> rebuilding them resolves the issue.
> 

Joe, you were partly right: I did not build packages for an older OS, 
since I only use Tinderbuild for two weeks, but a 'tinderbuild 
-updateports' did the trick and removed all leftover packages.

Thanks.

Peter
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