From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 11:38:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E183C2 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 11:38:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (dns1.vizion2000.net [62.49.197.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E272793 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 11:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (graphics [62.49.197.51]) by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50789119C79; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:22:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50ED56A1.70007@vizion2000.net> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:38:09 -0800 From: David Southwell Organization: Vision Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Merryweather Cooper Subject: Re: Re: kde4 rebuild - some guidance please References: <50E80D39.10403@vizion2000.net> <50ECCBA1.10500@borgsdemons.com> In-Reply-To: <50ECCBA1.10500@borgsdemons.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:38:23 -0000 On 1/8/2013 5:45 PM, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > On 01/05/13 05:23, David Southwell wrote: >> Hi >> I am having problems with my kde4 installation and feel the need to >> deinstall and start again. >> In view of the number of ports and dependencies can someone please let >> me know the cleanest way of doing this. It would probably be safer to >> assume an upwards and downwards recursive build. >> Thanks in advance >> david >> > > I just used: > > # pourtmaster --force-config x11/kde4 to rebuild my KDE4 from scratch. > > You can also pass the -f switch to rebuild in place, although I prefer > blowing away and starting fresh. > -- > John M. Cooper > Hi Thanks very much. I eventually solved the problems by the following a rather labourious sequence. with a significant number of manual interventions in the process of upgrading python ports. I now suspect the problems were primarily due to some conflicts in the python ports. Here is what worked: # portupgrade -f *py* # portupgrade -fr *kde* # portupgrade -fr *xorg* David -- David Southwell ARPS AFIAP Photographic Arts Trained & experienced competition judge, mentor, trainer, lecturer, Advanced digital techniques, international project photography