From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 6:33:20 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 E4ED837B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (h015.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84F0143E31 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:33:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from backdoc@crotchett.com) Received: (cpmta 6921 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 06:33:15 -0700 Received: from 65.187.59.153 (HELO localhost.localdomain) by smtp.directvinternet.com (209.228.33.243) with SMTP; 26 Jul 2002 06:33:15 -0700 X-Sent: 26 Jul 2002 13:33:15 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Darren Crotchett To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portupgrade aftermath Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:33:10 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207260833.10965.backdoc@crotchett.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 Quick background: I'm trying to transition from complete newbie to newbie-admin. In other=20 words, I can handle most of the basics of getting a system up and going. = Now=20 I want to learn how properly admin a FreeBSD box. I'm running 4.6-RELEAS= E. =20 Due to the recent security issues involving php, apache and openssh, I=20 thought that I would try to upgrade all of my installed ports/packages. =20 Things went OK but, not great. I have a couple of questions. Here's how= I=20 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 /!:fa= iled) =09! databases/mysql323-server (mysql-server-3.23.49) (install error) =09! devel/ruby-fnmatch (ruby-fnmatch-1.1b_1) (port directory error) =09* sysutils/portupgrade (portupgrade-20020429) The first question I have is what to do about those messages? mysql-serv= er=20 3.23.51is the version I have in /usr/ports. I wonder why portupgrade had= =20 trouble installing? Should I try manually installing it? What command l= ine=20 options should I use with portupgrade for that? I don't know how important ruby-fnmatch is. But, I don't know of any spe= cific=20 reason why I need it. So, I'm not too worried about it. But, I don't ca= re=20 to have loose ends. So, I do want to deal with it properly. What should= I=20 do with it? Since security was my motivation to upgrade, now I want to verify that I = have=20 all of the security fixes available. I'm not sure how you can tell if yo= u=20 have all of the security patches compiled in. =20 Finally, this last part is more a comment than a question. After upgradi= ng,=20 phpBB and mailman quit working. I discovered that mysql was no longer se= t to=20 start on boot (which is why phpBB wouldn't work). And, mailman is back t= o=20 giving me UID/GID problems (I always have to edit my Makefile and recompi= le=20 it). I think I can take care of both of these problems. But, why would=20 portupgrade leave my services unusable? It seems like if it had problems= , it=20 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 message