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Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:57:19 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fixes and comments on the upgrade script procedure
Message-ID:  <1100037439.17375.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041109204948.GA1732@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
References:  <20041109204948.GA1732@iib.unsam.edu.ar>

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On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:49 -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> Hi!
>=20
> I'm running the upgrade script since yesterday ... I hoped
> to have it finished by now,  but anyway ... since I had
> some spare time, and lacking a better thing to
> do I decided to read the upgrade script :)=20
>=20
> Attached is a diff with what I think should be corrected.

The comment diff is fine, but the other is not needed.  You must have
downloaded an old version of the script.

>=20
> Also, it seems that though not explicitly specified in the
> script, the upgrade procedure tried to rebuild openoffice.
> This together with mozilla and firefox helps explain the
> long time it is taking. Apart from the time issue, what
> happened is that the attempt to build OOo made the upgrade
> fail when /usr filled up. I never build OOo from sources,
> and always use packages. I just don't have the space to
> build such a monster. Perhaps it may be possible to perform a
> 'dry-run' of the script, just checking what would be done
> and thus allow the user to exclude some beasts?

Patches are welcome.  However, you can also specify portupgrade flags to
the script to attempt to upgrade from packages if available.

Joe

>=20
> Fernan
>=20
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