Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:00:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Andreas Davour <ante@update.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem Message-ID: <20040409195959.GA43582@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404092110300.28354@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: <4076527F.1060902@users.sourceforge.net> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404092042560.28354@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> <200404091401.20444.algould@datawok.com> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404092110300.28354@Tempo.Update.UU.SE>
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: > [snip] > > > If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't > > > get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested > > > in getting this to work. > > > > > > I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not > > > succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... > > > > Did you remember to execute 'pkgdb -Uu' after cvsup and before portupgrade? > > So be quite frank, I have no idea! I think I followed all instructions > quite litterally. But portupgrade was mentioned in the handbook and the > "cookbook" examples I found on the web differed somewhat. I no longer > remembered if I did a 'pkgdb -Uu' or not. > > I there any telltale signs showing in the narrative in my first post that > indicates I forgot it? Is it recommendable I run it now then? > > /andreas If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. When I do a portupgrade, my script runs pkgdb -F as a first steps. ...Just my dime's worth. cheers! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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