Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:33:10 -0500 From: Darren Crotchett <backdoc@crotchett.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portupgrade aftermath Message-ID: <200207260833.10965.backdoc@crotchett.com>
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Quick background: I'm trying to transition from complete newbie to newbie-admin. In other words, I can handle most of the basics of getting a system up and going. Now I want to learn how properly admin a FreeBSD box. I'm running 4.6-RELEASE. Due to the recent security issues involving php, apache and openssh, I thought that I would try to upgrade all of my installed ports/packages. Things went OK but, not great. I have a couple of questions. Here's how I did what I did: cvsup -g -L 2 /path/to/ports-supfile pkgdb -F portversion (to have a look at what might get upgraded) portupgrade -ra After running portupgrade, I was greeted with the following message: ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped /!:failed) ! databases/mysql323-server (mysql-server-3.23.49) (install error) ! devel/ruby-fnmatch (ruby-fnmatch-1.1b_1) (port directory error) * sysutils/portupgrade (portupgrade-20020429) The first question I have is what to do about those messages? mysql-server 3.23.51is the version I have in /usr/ports. I wonder why portupgrade had trouble installing? Should I try manually installing it? What command line options should I use with portupgrade for that? I don't know how important ruby-fnmatch is. But, I don't know of any specific reason why I need it. So, I'm not too worried about it. But, I don't care to have loose ends. So, I do want to deal with it properly. What should I do with it? Since security was my motivation to upgrade, now I want to verify that I have all of the security fixes available. I'm not sure how you can tell if you have all of the security patches compiled in. Finally, this last part is more a comment than a question. After upgrading, phpBB and mailman quit working. I discovered that mysql was no longer set to start on boot (which is why phpBB wouldn't work). And, mailman is back to giving me UID/GID problems (I always have to edit my Makefile and recompile it). I think I can take care of both of these problems. But, why would portupgrade leave my services unusable? It seems like if it had problems, it would be smart enough to back out and give you a message. Any suggestions? Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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