From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 14:16: 9 2003 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 0E85737B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B52043F93 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:16:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA10049; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:16:03 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Cliff Sarginson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Portupgrade -- revisited Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:15:59 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030302192233.GA326@willow.raggedclown.intra> <15970.24641.603055.302342@guru.mired.org> <20030302200115.GA334@willow.raggedclown.intra> In-Reply-To: <20030302200115.GA334@willow.raggedclown.intra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303021415.59947.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:01 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:49:21PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <20030302192233.GA326@willow.raggedclown.intra>, Cliff Sarginson typed: > > > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release > > > compilable ports..especially for the big mothers like X/KDE. > > > > I'm sure they do. However, they can't test in your environment. The > > X ports built fine for me. I don't use KDE, so haven't tried to > > build that. If you send the maintainer a note with the error > > messages when you tried to build the port, they might be able to > > fix it. A generic "it didn't build" on -questions almost certainly > > means that nothing will happen. > > Ok Mike, I really do always respect your advice. > I want as much as anyone else that things *work*. > I do not mind geting my hand dirty, if it improves things. > But I think, after reflecting on it, that the ports system is in a > mess. I will see if I can be more positive about improving it. > But I am dmned if I am going to learn Ruby :) I just finished building kde and X. In the last 2 weeks I have portupgrade -puf portupgrade portupgrade -pufr png portupgrade -pufr fontconfig portupgrade -pufr libxml2 portupgrade -pufr ghostscript-gnu I have also done a portupgrade -pufR XFree86 on a box with problems. It wasn't X with the problem it turns out. I just wanted a clean X. There was a minor problem with ghostscript-gnu's font directory during the deinstall phase. I removed and did a make package to reinstall it. What portupgrade options are you using? When you do "-r", you have to force "-f". Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message