Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:59:55 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading the Portupgrade port Message-ID: <20021226205956950.AAA348@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <200212261156.49247.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20021226113141988.AAA328@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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On 26 Dec 2002 at 11:56, Kent Stewart boldly uttered: > On Thursday 26 December 2002 03:35 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote: [snip] > > Have things improved in the meantime? Is there an easy way to > > upgrade Portupgrade without removing everything and re-installing? I > > currently have the 20020706 version installed. > > You version is so far back that the upgrade is hopeless. You have things > that no long exist as parts of portupgrade and your version can't deal > with that. It is easier if you delete the portupgrade, ruby-*, > pkg_tartup, and what ever is left and reinstall it. > > FWIW, it works flawlessly now. I just recently upgraded to the 1216 > version by using "portupgrade -rpuf ruby". Thanks for the tip, although I must admit I'm kinda surprised that a 5-month-old version of anything is considered so "ancient" as to be "un-upgradeable"... particularly a program designed to upgrade other programs.. <shrug> But I'm not really complaining, portupgrade is a boon to all humanity. :-) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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