Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:44:45 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports update gone badly wrong Message-ID: <20050429214445.GB57046@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1114807030.3078.12.camel@chaucer> References: <1114807030.3078.12.camel@chaucer>
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--QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: > I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation. I have been > running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to csvup the ports files, > using the following section in ports-supfile. Note I didn't change the > release tag! I updated a few of the ports, including Evolution and > Firefox, and had trouble with missing libraries, such as libgthread .. > 400 having been rename to ..600.. >=20 > The machine now feels less stable than an old version of Windows.=20 > Things like Tk.pm and other Perl modules no longer work, and won't > reinstall. I had to copy over the missing libraries for Evolution and > Firefox from another machine. >=20 > Any advice for recovery, other than a re-installation and fresh start? > What should I do next time? Use portupgrade to update your ports. What you did wrong was updated a port that provides a library without updating the ports that depend on that library. Kris --QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCcqrNWry0BWjoQKURAgzsAKD2Mn8wAzLJSP8FK0QPgZotH9UehQCg2P6l 7D1mfxjJchEX6twMGb04hgg= =wz+t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt--
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