From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 26 13:37:34 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 02B7537B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6467943EB2 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-17 (dyn205.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.205]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:37:31 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: Kent Stewart Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:37:30 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Upgrading the Portupgrade port Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021226205956950.AAA348@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-reply-to: <200212261321.37178.kstewart@owt.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-ID: <20021226213731771.AAA347@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.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 26 Dec 2002 at 13:21, Kent Stewart boldly uttered: > 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] > > > > 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 > before that can't deal with ports that have disappeared. If you have a > version before that, the easiest way is to delete portupgrade and its > dependancies and reinstall it. Everything from ruby-1.6.8 to > portupgrade is new so you don't lose any time but you do get a clean > install on the first try. > > Running portsdb -F produces signal errors when you have a port installed > that is no longer in the port tree. I don't remember if -fu worked at > that point or not. Yeah I have noticed some issue with ports that have gone away also. I think it's part of what I was seeing in my other post about the errors I see when running Portsdb -uU. BTW, I assume you meant "pkgdb -F" rather than "portsdb -F". -- 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