pkg: .... has a missing dependency: pkg-config

Dmitry D

Dmitry D

Hello!

I have a strange problem with pkgng on my 8.4-RELEASE-p30 host
When I try to update wget I see many errors "....has a missing dependency: pkg-config"
Please help me to repair pkgng database.
Thanks!
PS: Probably I run pkg2ng second time after 1-2 month
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Code: 
#pkg install wget
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
Updating database digests format: 100%
pkg: libidn has a missing dependency: pkg-config
pkg: gnuplot has a missing dependency: pkg-config
pkg: gd has a missing dependency: pkg-config
pkg: mrtg has a missing dependency: pkg-config
pkg: libxml2 has a missing dependency: pkg-config
pkg: lua has a missing dependency: pkg-config
pkg: nmap has a missing dependency: pkg-config
The following 18 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
  neon29-0.29.6_4
  elm+ME-2.4.99f
  libxml2-2.8.0_2

New packages to be INSTALLED:
  indexinfo: 0.2.3
  gettext-runtime: 0.19.4
  perl5: 5.20.2_5
  openssl: 1.0.2_3
  gettext-tools: 0.19.4

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
  wget: 1.12_3 -> 1.16.3
  libidn: 1.19 -> 1.29
  libiconv: 1.14_1 -> 1.14_8
  gmake: 3.82_1 -> 4.1_2
  gettext: 0.18.1.1_1 -> 0.19.4
  lftp: 4.3.3 -> 4.6.3a
  expat: 2.0.1_2 -> 2.1.0_2
  help2man: 1.41.2 -> 1.43.3_1
  p5-Locale-gettext: 1.05_3 -> 1.05_4
  dovecot: 1.2.17 -> 1.2.17_6

The process will require 44 MiB more space.
21 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]:
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Make sure you have an up to date ports tree at /usr/ports and start reading what pkg-updating(8) outputs. Your installed packages seem seriously out of date since the last time pkg-config was in the ports tree was about three years ago:


Code: 
20120726:
  AFFECTS: users of devel/pkg-config
  AUTHOR: bapt@FreeBSD.org

  devel/pkg-config has been replaced by devel/pkgconf

  # portmaster -o devel/pkgconf devel/pkg-config
    or
  # portupgrade -fo devel/pkgconf pkg-config-\*

  pkgng:
  # pkg set -o devel/pkg-config:devel/pkgconf
  # pkg install -f devel/pkgconf

You could start with this invocation of pkg-updating(8), it prints all UPDATING entries for your installed packages starting from the beginning of year 2012:

pkg updating -d 20120101

Follow the entries in reverse order of date, oldest first.
 
Thank you for help!

I misunderstood what I should do with output of
pkg updating -d 20120101 ?

Execute this command
pkg set -o devel/pkg-config:devel/pkgconf ?

Very strange thing - I don't see 20120726 string in output
#pkg updating -d 20120101 | grep 20120726
#

But /usr/ports/UPDATING is up to date
Code: 
#l /usr/ports/UPDATING
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  393k Jul  2 22:40 /usr/ports/UPDATING
 
Please do not run pkg2ng more than once. If you have updated packages since the first time, it will wipe out that information. The only time to use pkg2ng is once, when switching from the old package database. Then do not ever use it again.
 
You can grep(1) trough the UPDATING file yourself and see if there are other entries to affect your installed packages, pkg-updating(8) is not completely precise when it matches the entries to the installed packages because the format of the file is very ad-hoc.

And yes, follow the instructions to the letter when you see a matching entry.
 
As this seems to be a rather old system it may be a lot simpler to just make a note of what is installed, remove all packages and reinstall them from the list. That way you shouldn't run into any dependency issues.
 
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