From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 25 19:12:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4975106566C for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from woodbine.london.02.net (woodbine.london.02.net [87.194.255.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFBB8FC14 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.76] (93.97.24.219) by woodbine.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A20329601B403F5; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:12:07 +0100 Message-ID: <4A43CC06.1070706@onetel.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:12:06 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090321) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: meslists@yahoo.fr References: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> <20090622214802.0761813e@gumby.homeunix.com> <4A414751.9090804@onetel.com> <200906232348.14647.meslists@yahoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <200906232348.14647.meslists@yahoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:12:13 -0000 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 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" >