From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 12 00:21:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBB5106566B for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:21:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FED8FC14 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:21:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so1534882ewy.43 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:21:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zCXxK+ZBzk3odrtJ4t0dry5/JO2pSE0FdydLB3wwv7g=; b=wban+ygZgs8K5QtQ527d7fgyn1CUsWkSfqpYWX995acvmn96oalC7OsB0dZTgve0cX 0xznUeIvjy4z8yDxQCqU0IYcdq8P4cwT7CfRLGb5wdQKr7NI8pAAIJCSMJkbpm2STdAp H9gr2gAe4CxzLc9t5LvMFgE5zRn6NSE0P57vo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fg5dS88OzcZOPR1lbA9yr4MncieQjFSJXR88CeWTxV2zulSZJpmcJ4DvecLHaFsrPV H4codUcNa34Sx8QXu1SASOhuv/gwHZKHoxT72Ggfw5k+CX9Dudbw1dMvKcyA/aypdxb8 mk+5ZJhEWK0r2JoaszmWq+0AZgDJvD4FOlwtc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.34.5 with SMTP id h5mr3296007ebh.16.1239495671201; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:21:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200904110835.14672.david@vizion2000.net> References: <486EACE56EE9A4FF9B93958A@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <29774DBA177D06A982491ADD@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <49DF9355.8030807@gmail.com> <200904110835.14672.david@vizion2000.net> From: Chris Rees Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:20:56 +0100 Message-ID: To: David Southwell , FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: Can I resume the perl upgrade? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:21:12 -0000 2009/4/11 David Southwell : > On Friday 10 April 2009 11:43:33 kimelto@gmail.com wrote: >> Paul Schmehl wrote: >> > --On Friday, April 10, 2009 11:17:00 -0500 Paul Schmehl >> > >> > wrote: >> >> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING, if you want to upgrade to perl5.10, >> >> you do >> >> the following: >> >> >> >> Portupgrade users: >> >> =A0 =A0 0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety): >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 pkgdb -Ff >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0 1) Reinstall perl with new 5.10: >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.\* >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0 2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl: >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 portupgrade -fr perl >> >> >> >> My machine got rebooted right in the middle of step 3. =A0Is there a >> >> way to >> >> resume where I left off? =A0Or do I just start over? >> > >> > Let me rephrase. =A0I don't see a way in portupgrade to start over whe= re >> > I left off. =A0However, pkg_info -R lang/perl* shows that all my ports >> > depend on 5.10 and no ports are still depending upon 5.8. =A0Is it saf= e >> > to assume that the reboot happened after portupgrade had finished? >> >> Nope. With this info you can assume that step 2/3 worked. Not the step 3= /3. >> I dont know how to restart at the stage it was before reboot as I dont >> use portupgrade. >> Personnaly, as portmaster failed with some ports and abort the whole >> update process, I wrote a simple sh script which loop over the packages >> which need perl (got via the via pkg_info -R, need reordering >> thought...), exec portmaster ${PKG}, and keep a list of which reinstall >> succeed and which failed. >> >> Regards > > I hope it is not too far off topic but: > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this one: > > Stale dependency: bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 -> perl-5.8.9_2 (lang/perl5.8): > can't convert nil into string > > > My update to 10 seems to be OK except for this.. > > I cannot find its origin so do not know what to deinstall and reinstall > > It would also be great to get all bsdpan into the pkgdb with their origin= s.. > is there any way to do that? > > Thanks in advance > > David > Perhaps you should start a new thread. Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?