Solved gstreamer1-* build failure

[trev]

The note below from 2022 also applies to today's:

gstreamer1-1.22.10 < needs updating (index has 1.24.8)
gstreamer1-plugins-1.22.10_2 < needs updating (index has 1.24.8)
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-1.22.10_3 < needs updating (index has 1.24.8)
gstreamer1-plugins-gl-1.22.10 < needs updating (index has 1.24.8)

20221015:
AFFECTS: users of gstreamer1-* when upgrading via port builds on the host
AUTHOR: riggs FreeBSD.org

The update of the gstreamer1-* ports to 1.20.3 requires a clean install of
gstreamer1-* ports. In particular, when trying to update ports in-place using
portupgrade or portmaster, the builds are likely to fail due to dependency
mismatches. If this is your preferred update path, you need to deinstall
(pkg delete -f) gstreamer1 and the plugins before reinstalling them from
the ports tree.
Note that pkg upgrade will do the right thing: If you use official FreeBSD
packages or build your own set of packages using poudriere, nothing special
is needed.

 

[DrEuclidean]

Thank you! Deleting the package worked, and both the gstreamer1 and the plugins port build now.

However, I do not understand why this fix works, why would removing the package effect the compilation of the port?

 

[trev]

It works because all the builds now have the same dependencies, otherwise the build fails due to dependency mismatches.