From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 21:44:46 2005 Return-Path: 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 86C0216A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:44:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4131B43D58 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:44:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 99C64514C9; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:44:45 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Jeays Message-ID: <20050429214445.GB57046@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1114807030.3078.12.camel@chaucer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1114807030.3078.12.camel@chaucer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports update gone badly wrong X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:44:46 -0000 --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--