Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:39:34 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Aniruddha Bohra <bohra@cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: Re: gnome_upgrade.sh - noclean mode? Message-ID: <20040409203935.2AEDF5D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:19:07 EDT." <1081541947.74431.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:19:07 -0400 > > > --=-xuXw1Z3uExBQty1Z9tHP > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:17, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > > Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:44:26 -0400 > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > > >=20 > > > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:39, Aniruddha Bohra wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I tried installing Gnome-2.6 and it failed > > > > due to gstreamer (I found the solution on this list), > > > > but I do not want to go through the whole build process again. > > > >=3D20 > > > > Is there a way that I can upgrade without having > > > > to build everything again. BTW, I can start gnome and it > > > > is the new version. > > >=20 > > > Edit the script, and remove the -f from the main upgrade step. > >=20 > > Is this really safe? Won't it possibly result in some ports not being > > re-installed? I grepped through the log and added excludes (-x) for the > > ports that had already been installed, but just removing the -f would > > certainly be easier. > > Since I bumped PORTREVISION on all ports that depended on glib20, you > should be okay. Plus, portupgrade runs in a greedy way such that it > will update the most possible ports before dying due to failure.=20 > Removing the -f should be safe. The important thing is making sure the > final reinstall stage works correctly. If not, you'll be missing > certain ports, and things like the keyboard may not work right anymore. > Thanks, Joe. You just saved me some time updating my last system from 2.4 to 2.6! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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