Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:12:06 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: meslists@yahoo.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ? Message-ID: <4A43CC06.1070706@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <200906232348.14647.meslists@yahoo.fr> References: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> <20090622214802.0761813e@gumby.homeunix.com> <4A414751.9090804@onetel.com> <200906232348.14647.meslists@yahoo.fr>
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dan wrote: > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 23:21:21 Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> RW wrote: >>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 >>> >>> Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: >>>> I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using >>>> ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten >>>> about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it >>>> was. I've upgraded ports just by doing 'portmanager -u' over one or >>>> two quite major changes and not had any problems that haven't been >>>> down to an individual ports. >>> You still need to read UPDATING, portmanager handles some of the >>> issues automatically, but not all. >> Not trolling but can you give me some examples? >> >> Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Yes. I think there is at least one. Please, consider to correct me if I am > wrong. > > Yesterday, reading the contents of /usr/src/UPDATING in the source tree (using > portupdate-scan) I found : > > "[...] > 20090608: > AFFECTS: users of lang/python* and py-* > AUTHOR: miwi@FreeBSD.org > > The default version of Python has been changed from 2.5.x to 2.6.x. > If you have 2.5.x installed, perform an upgrade of lang/python25 to > lang/python26 with the following command: > [...] > " > Can portmanager know that the default version of a port has been changed and > then you need to do the upgrade to the newer major version ? I don't know. I will put testing it on my todo list (which I really do hope to get around to :) Chris > > And if it can know that... can also portmanager know that > > "[...] > Once the installed Python has been updated to 2.6, by using the > method above, it is required to run the upgrade-site-packages target in > lang/python to assure that site-packages are made available to the new > Python > version. > > [...] "? > > If, otherwise, using portmanager you end up with a newer version of python 2.5 > (for example)... are you sure that every upgrade in the future will work > flawlessly ? After Reading the UPDATING file a guy will > " > [...] set the PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION variable to 'python2.5' without > quotes in make.conf, then go to lang/python and perform the following > command: > [...] > " > will portmanager do the same ? > > > d > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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