From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 26 13:21:41 2002 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 C5EB037B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:21:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4D243EB2 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19262; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:21:37 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Kent Stewart To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Subject: Re: Upgrading the Portupgrade port Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:21:37 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021226113141988.AAA328@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> <20021226205956950.AAA348@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20021226205956950.AAA348@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212261321.37178.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 26 December 2002 12:59 pm, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > 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.. The break point is around 20020907 and I can't be precise. Anything=20 before that can't deal with ports that have disappeared. If you have a=20 version before that, the easiest way is to delete portupgrade and its=20 dependancies and reinstall it. Everything from ruby-1.6.8 to=20 portupgrade is new so you don't lose any time but you do get a clean=20 install on the first try. Running portsdb -F produces signal errors when you have a port installed=20 that is no longer in the port tree. I don't remember if -fu worked at=20 that point or not. Kent > > But I'm not really complaining, portupgrade is a boon to all > humanity. :-) --=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message