From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 16 23:56:57 2002 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 098B437B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:56:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from web20104.mail.yahoo.com (web20104.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B018A43E75 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021117075655.13032.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.156] by web20104.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:56:55 PST Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:56:55 -0800 (PST) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: "portupgrade -a" and errors with backing up packages... is it going to be a problem? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 I ran portupgrade with the -a option and everything seems to have run w/o incident. however, in the end, I got the following notices: ----------------------------- (snip) ---> Backing up the old version env: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_tarup: No such file or directory ** Backup failed. (snip) ---> Backing up the old version env: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_tarup: No such file or directory ** Backup failed. ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed) ! converters/libiconv (libiconv-1.8_1) (backup error) ! net/ntp (ntp-4.1.1a_1) (backup error) ! lang/ruby (ruby-1.6.7.2002.09.12) (backup error) ! misc/help2man (help2man-1.26) (backup error) ! lang/ruby16-shim-ruby18 (ruby-shim-ruby18-1.7.3.2002.09.20) (backup error) ! print/freetype2 (freetype2-2.1.2) (backup error) ! sysutils/portupgrade (portupgrade-20020902) (backup error) ! x11/XFree86-4-libraries (XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_2) (backup error) ! net/tightvnc (tightvnc-1.2.6) (backup error) ! security/openssl (openssl-0.9.6g) (backup error) ! net/openldap2 (openldap-2.0.25_2) (backup error) ! www/apache13-modssl (apache+mod_ssl-1.3.27+2.8.11) (backup error) ! www/mozilla (mozilla-1.0.1,2) (backup error) ! mail/squirrelmail (squirrelmail-1.2.8) (backup error) -------------------- it seems that the cuplprit is pkg_tarup... is this correct? i've looked in the ports and in my system for this file, but i haven't been able to locate anything. is it more than just this file or is there more to why backups cannot be made? also, will there be a problem is these packages are not backedup? -Sameer __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message