From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 14:48:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9583A37B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f90.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5B343F75 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:48:02 -0700 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 25 May 2003 21:48:01 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] X-Originating-Email: [crollins666@hotmail.com] From: "clayton rollins" To: jhuvinen@cc.hut.fi Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 21:48:01 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 May 2003 21:48:02.0874 (UTC) FILETIME=[511771A0:01C32307] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 21:48:03 -0000 On Sun, 25 May 2003 Jukka Huvinen wrote: > > >On Sun, 25 May 2003, clayton rollins wrote: > > > >I have only a modem connection and I would like to avoid updating > > >everything and would like to stay within stable-branch. > > > > > > > If you use cvsup with compression, it shouldn't be too big to just get >the > > ports tree. (I think it was just over 30 megs when I did it...) > >Yes, the tree is not a problem, but the ports are. XFree + gnome2 are >almost everything. And all depends on others... > I see what you mean; yes, it is a *lot* of stuff. >I updated to the "current" ports tree also, but some of them are not even >available as a package. Also portupgrade used a download path >.../stable_4_8 ... or similar and did not find the packages. Getting them >manually was possible, but I ended up with partial upgrade and >nonfunctional X. Something went wrong. > >pkg_delete -a and reinstall restored it back to 4.8... > First, did you check to see if the packages may have just been moved? /usr/ports/MOVED has a listing of recently removed or moved packages... I'm not really sure what you mean by "portupgrade used a download path .../stable_4_8 ... or similar." Was this in the URL, or the distfile path? If it's the second, you might verify that PORTSDIR is not set to point to it. If it's the first, you might check the Makefile line MASTER_SITES to see if it's pointing to it. (I have no plausable explanation for either case, though.) At any rate, this question is a bit beyond what -newbies should handle. Feel free to ask again on -questions. (A crazy newbie idea to, quite likely, get yourself in trouble: run a 'pkgdb -u' without updating the tree, then 'portupgrade -r -R XFree86.' I have no idea if it would/should work. (that's what you get when you ask a newbie questions... I'm not sure if 'pkgdb -u' checks against a remote database; I think it does.) Checking with portversion will show if pkgdb lists the packages as outdated; if it does, portupgrade *should* work.) Peace, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail