Re: "make update" question

"Peter I. Hansen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 don´t work. How come? 
> Incomplete updates?

What is your output of 'pkgmanager sync'?
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