Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:20:56 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I resume the perl upgrade? Message-ID: <b79ecaef0904111720o3229378av2a3809a26861f4be@mail.gmail.com> 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>
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2009/4/11 David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net>:
> 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
>> >
>> > <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> 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
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