Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:53:51 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ruby-optparst + portupgrade Message-ID: <20020814075352814.AAA342@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <nMxtwlBdtAW9EwZs@caomhin.demon.co.uk> References: <B97D660C.19EF%scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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On 12 Aug 2002 at 20:24, Kevin Golding boldly uttered: > Someone, quite probably Scott Gerhardt, once wrote: > >My portupgrade et.al. Does not work with the following error: > > > >/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:34:in `require': No such file to load -- > >optparse (LoadError) > > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:34 > > >I though reinstalling ruby-optparse would fix the problem but ruby-optparse > >does not seem to be in the ports tree anymore, what happened to it? > > It got integrated into ruby-shim. > > Probably best to just pkg_delete portupgrade and install a more recent > version that uses shim instead. > > Kevin I have found in the vast majority of cases that trying to upgrade portupgrade (ie "portupgrade -R portupgrade") causes more problems than it solves.. dependency issues and other failures. Now I typically just remove portupgrade and reinstall whenever it gets out of date, sometimes removing the Ruby modules as well. (so the latest ones get installed when I reinstall portupgrade) Luckily I don't have any other ports/packages that depend on Ruby on any of the boxes I manage. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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