On 6/6/20, Kevin Oberman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:38 PM Donald Wilde <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been doing some more work to get to the bottom of why my synth >> upgrade-system stalled. >> >> Here's the pertinent line, though the whole operation's result is >> attached. >> >> print/tex-dvipsk scan aborted because a circular dependency on >> print/tex-dvipsk was detected. >> >> If I understand this it means that two different programs require two >> _different_ versions of the tex-dvipsk program to be installed. >> Correct? At this point, it seems to be beyond a 'how did I get here' >> situation, it's a 'discover which programs cause it' situation. >>
> Not quite. A circular dependency means that Port-A depends on Port-B and > Port-B depends on Port-A, though it is normally not so obvious as there are > usually intervening ports in the dependency path. > That's what I always thought too, Kevin. I had another cause to reinstall, so the situation is gone now. > It seems that this should show up during a poudriere builds, too, so it > would be caught quickly. Not sure why synth (which I have not used in > years) would have an issue when poudriere (which I have never used) does > not. This is new to me since I last approached FreeBSD. I've reinstalled with more packages than ports. Somehow I checked too many port options the first time... :-/ > -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: [email protected] > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 > Thanks for your thoughts Kevin! :D -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * **************************************************** _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
