From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 13:00:16 2004 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 BBD5B16A504 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4439F43D49 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id i39K08Q8077107; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i39K04N9043617; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.11/Submit) id i39K004w043610; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:00:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:00:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Andreas Davour Message-ID: <20040409195959.GA43582@tao.thought.org> References: <4076527F.1060902@users.sourceforge.net> <200404091401.20444.algould@datawok.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem 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, 09 Apr 2004 20:00:16 -0000 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