Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:00:58 -0500 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <cls@willow.raggedclown.intra>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Portupgrade -- revisited Message-ID: <200303021500.58082.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20030302192233.GA326@willow.raggedclown.intra> References: <20030302192233.GA326@willow.raggedclown.intra>
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On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: | At the risk of being accused of a complainer.. | I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have | left me without a useable X system. | Guess it is back to the CD's. | Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release compilable | ports..especially for the big mothers like X/KDE. This was just much-discussed in STABLE. I've had a similar experience to yours, though many people gave ways to make it work. What *I* do is is just "mass upgrade" OR none-- I do the kernel/world thing for my base system, save my current ports with pkg_info -aI, pkg_delete '*', wipe out /usr/local, then go over the packages I saved and remove the version numbers, and do (on a copy of hte file where I saved them, delete any that i must build from ports (eg, local patches) 1,$s/^/pkg_add -r/ 1,$s/[0-9].*$// Check for sanity, and then script source the file . . . then check the script file and build from ports any that failed, take any special actions, and install my local mods (and build from ports those that I need to). YMMV; lots of people swear by portupgrade. But I've had better luck with it. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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