From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 13:14:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E575916A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9604C43D41 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i34KDa8a000387; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:13:36 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:14:35 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200404040153.11429.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <200404041227.58240.kstewart@owt.com> <200404041510.10437.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200404041510.10437.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404041314.35994.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports hosed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 20:14:40 -0000 On Sunday 04 April 2004 01:10 pm, Jay Moore wrote: > On Sunday 04 April 2004 02:27 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Bottom line here (in my case) is this: I'm afraid my ports tree > > > may be BFU; this all started when I tried to install the "K3b" > > > port which apparently has a bazillion dependencies. At least one > > > of the tar.gz files couldn't be located, and things have kind of > > > gone downhill from there :( For me, I'm afraid that salvation > > > may require "wiping" the entire ports tree, and re-installing it > > > from the 5.2 cd. Is there a safe & clean way to do that? > > > > It was the closest thing to openssl. There is what I think is a > > problem with ports such as openssl. It is in the makefile to > > portupgrade but if you do a make search, it doesn't show up. When > > you see an obvious link problem like you saw, check if you have it > > installed. If you do/don't just upgrade/install what is missing. > > Well, done is done... no way I can "back up", and re-visit questions > that I've already answered incorrectly. And meanwhile my machine is > still crunching forward with the last "portupgrade -a" that I did - > this will likely continue for quite some time as it reports 211 ports > (and this # keeps growing!) I believe I've lost control of the f**g > thing... > > So - is there a way to go back to "ground zero"?... to just remove > everything from the ports tree, and re-install from the 5.2 cd? > Why would you want to go back. I think that is comparable to rejecting brain surgery and asking them to reinsert a tumor. There are problems that occur and you can't always blindly run portupgrade -a. Most of the time, the fix is really simple and you fix it and move on. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html