Using Portmaster to redirect stale dependencies

Grell

Grell

Hi all, I have been trying to use portmaster alone to manage my ports and move away from tools such as pkgdb and portupgrade. However I do not know the portmaster equivalent of "pkgdb -F". Basically what happened is I install xfce4 through ports then I install rhythmbox which installs a port (notification-daemon) which conflicts with the xfce port xfce4-notifyd . I deinstall the xfce port and continued the installation of notification-daemon. Now xfce4 points to this stale dependency of xfce4-notifyd and I do not know how to point it towards notification-daemon using portmaster. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
 
Okay after running # portmaster --check-depends I receive the following output:
Code: 
Checking dependencies: ...

>>> Missing package dependencies were detected.
>>> Found 1 issue(s) in total with your package database.

pkg: Package 'deskutils/xfce4-notifyd' was not found in the repositories

>>> Unable to find packages for installation.
How do I proceed from here? I'm guessing certain installed ports depend on xfce4-notifyd but that package is no longer installed. What should I do now?
 
Yeah but it conflicts with the package "notification-daemon-0.7.2_1" I was wondering if I could point anything that used to depend on xfce4-notifyd to the newly installed notification-daemon-0.7.2_1. I can't have both on there.
 
Okay thanks for the help. I was able to fix the problem by removing the "libnotify" option from rhythmbox (which depended on the notification-daemon). Then I rebuilt rhythmbox and reinstalled xfce4-notifyd. Now everything seems in order.
 
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