From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 12: 1:27 2003 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 3440337B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:01:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F20E643F85 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5 [24.93.67.52]) by ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h22Jxro5009052; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:59:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.74.172.220]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:59:12 -0500 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 933DBBA06; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:00:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Cliff Sarginson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Portupgrade -- revisited Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:00:58 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030302192233.GA326@willow.raggedclown.intra> In-Reply-To: <20030302192233.GA326@willow.raggedclown.intra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303021500.58082.bts@babbleon.org> 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 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