Subject: Re: "make update" question
To: Huub <huubvanniekerk@gmail.com>
From: Peter I. Hansen <pih@xbase.dk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/19/2006 11:10:19
Huub wrote:
>>
>> The package graphics/libpixman does not exist in my pkgsrc collection.
>> According to http://netbsd.org/Changes/pkg-changes.html it was removed
>> aug. 10th.
>> You need to figure out what has this dependency and unwant it, or
>> maybe it's enough for you to update the pkgsrc files.
>>
>
> I did "make update" and have ended up with an almost completely broken
> system. This response is not from the NetBSD machine. Gnome, firefox,
> thunderbird etc etc don't work anymore. Fluxbox turned out to be intact,
> so I went back to that. Links worked as well, so at least I have access
> to the web. If I want to "make install" e.g. firefox, it reports that it
> can't open the zip-2.32 Makefile.
> What can I do now? I already updated pkgsrc by cvs. Should I completely
> remove pkgsrc and cvs it again?
> I tried to pkg_add packages, but my attempts strand by noticing that
> many links to amd64-current packagesdirectories donĀ“t work. How come?
> Incomplete updates?
What is your output of 'pkgmanager sync'?