From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 31 20:40:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC42937B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:40:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C74C43EC5 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <20030101044017002000fd0oe>; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 04:40:17 +0000 Message-ID: <3E12712F.1000106@mac.com> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:40:15 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages References: <20021231154158.GA22986@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <3E126F2F.8030605@adam.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Astill wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've just spent a fun day upgrading ~180 ports that were about a year out >> of date, which will teach me not to be so lazy in future :-( Anyway, >> portupgrade coped with most of this mess admirably, except for >> (unsurprisingly) the KDE2 --> KDE3 upgrade. >> > > That upgrade is a doozie. Been there, done that! > rm -fr qt2 is (I think) the correct thing to do (someone else on the > list will correct me). > Then port kde3. > > qt2 and qt3 will NOT live comfortably together. So delete qt2 and all > the apps dependent on it (that includes kde2 and its apps). > The kde3 port will look for the version of qt it needs, fail to find it, > and fetch it for you. Ain't that nice? > it would probably make sense to subscribe to the kde-freebsd list. I have learned a lot from just lurking and they work hard to make sure KDE stays up to date. http://lists.csociety.org/listinfo/kde-freebsd -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. -- Dave Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message