From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 11:45:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826DD16A4CE for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 11:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C279643D48 for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 11:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamw@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 64120 invoked by uid 1252); 3 May 2004 18:45:13 -0000 Date: 3 May 2004 14:45:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 14:45:13 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger To: Stacey Roberts Message-ID: <20040503184513.GQ15500@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <20040503163501.GP393@crom.vickiandstacey.com> <20040503165407.GP15500@toxic.magnesium.net> <20040503174430.GQ393@crom.vickiandstacey.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040503174430.GQ393@crom.vickiandstacey.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.2 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx X-ASL: 6/m/behind you User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lots of core files with latest xscreensaver-gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 18:45:14 -0000 >> (05.03.2004 @ 1344 PST): Stacey Roberts said, in 3.6K: << > Hi Adam, > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Weinberger " > To: To Stacey Roberts > Date: Mon, 03 May, 2004 17:54 BST > Subject: Re: Lots of core files with latest xscreensaver-gnome > > > Clear out everything in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg and the run: > > > > portupgrade -u -a -f > > > > That will rebuild everything. After you clear out > > /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg, nothing will run until you complete the > > portupgrade. > > Thanks for the reply. > > As nothing (presumably this refers to X-related apps) will run in between "rm -rf'ing /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/*" and the portupgrade cmd, is it best then, to ensure that no-one is logged in on X during this exercise? > > If anything I'll be looking to run this overnight. > > Thanks again, Adam. > > Regards, > > Stacey >> end of "Re: Lots of core files with latest xscreensaver-gnome" from Stacey Roberts << That's probably the safest behaviour, yes. It's not that *nothing* will run, but after you delete the stuff in .../pkg, a whole bunch of things will be missing libraries. I hope that someday they'll make -u a default argument to portupgrade(1). # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx