Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:30:06 +0200 From: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" <tingox@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade fails - how to fix? Message-ID: <ef8c8a880810071430tf932360yf78cc452a46de8b5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081007082129.GA32825@holstein.holy.cow> References: <ef8c8a880810041600w5cc10e25ne314d4671cc309ee@mail.gmail.com> <ef8c8a880810070007g41b4a639h8e1ed673e0da67ba@mail.gmail.com> <20081007082129.GA32825@holstein.holy.cow>
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Hello, On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Parv <parv@pair.com> wrote: > Is your version of portupgrade is the latest in the ports? (So that > I can install the same & investigate.) Yes - always. I think I even stated in my first message that the ports tree was updated. >> root@kg-work2# portupgrade -R nasm pcre xterm mplayer gscan2pdf ImageMagick > > What are the exact names of the ports|packages installed? Many ways > to list; here is a simple one ... You mean with the version numbers? Any port names listed above or in my initial message re non-ambiguous. FWIW, I use /bin/sh as myt shell. Always. > Seems like portupgrade is dying when a port name-version format does > not match the expected regular expression. Or, the program > encounters a non-port string. It might be, but where does it encounter that problem? I have done 'pkgdb -F' - it didn't find any problems. And why doesn't portupgrade find the same problem with any individual port when I try portupgrade on them one-by-one? > If portupgrade is indeed successful individually for all the above > listed ports, then the second scenario is more likely (the "non-port > thing" one). Well, I can't understand where portupgrade picks up that from, unless there is a flaw / error in portupgrade itself. I am a quite experienced user of portupgrade (I have used it for many years), so let me put a few notes here: 1) ambiguous names - if given, portupgrade will ask which ones you want (eg. 'firefox') 2) non-existent names - portupgrade will skip those, like so: root@kg-quiet# portupgrade -R nonexistant [Exclude up-to-date packages done] 3) portupgrade used to have no problems with the way I am using it, ie. portupgrade -R port1 port2 port3 port4 ... Hope this helps. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
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