Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:49:35 +0100 From: _1126 <lists@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: weird error messages with various ports Message-ID: <20140128084935.GC16541@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> In-Reply-To: <20140127203002.37fbb036@X220.alogt.com> References: <20140127120519.Horde.zk6gGzrJZ8n-kUHavzPiTw1@webmail.df.eu> <20140127191858.78a3fa5d@X220.alogt.com> <20140127114919.GA66024@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127200326.026e6c35@X220.alogt.com> <20140127121011.GA68344@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127203002.37fbb036@X220.alogt.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 08:30:02PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:10:12 +0100 > _1126 <lists@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 08:03:26PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:49:19 +0100 > > > _1126 <lists@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 07:18:58PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:05:19 +0100 > > > > > lists@elfsechsundzwanzig.de wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > This is my first posting on this mailinglist, so I hope I am > > > > > > doing everything ok. > > > > > > > > > > do not worry to much about this. > > > > > > > > > > > > I am running a 10.0-RELEASE on a Thinkpad X220 - and > > > > > > everything was just fine. > > > > > > > > > > > I do the same. > > > > > > > > > > > Until I did a > > > > > > > > > > > > $ sudo portsnap fetch update > > > > > > > > > > > > today and afterwards a > > > > > > > > > > > > $ sudo portmaster -aD > > > > > > > > > > > I did nearly the same either yesterday night or this morning > > > > > but I used svn and portupgrade without any problems. > > > > > > > > > > How old was your ports tree before the upgrade? > > > > > > > > Three days old. > > > > > > > ok, get the latest one and try again. If it still does not work, I > > > could give you the revision number of my working ports tree. > > > > It still does not work. However, I do not have a revision number, > > IIUC, because I'm updating my ports with portsnap and not with svn, > > right? I might try to checkout ports anew and see whether that works > > then. > > of course. > > You might should consider to switch to svn and portupgrade. There is > one advantage of this pair. Portupgrade does not leave you with a > machine that cannot be used anymore. The worst case is that no port > gets upgraded but your machine still works. Svn has the advantage that > you can chose your port 'version' if the current revision does not work > for you. I can see why a ports tree that is being checked out with svn instead of being updated with portsnap might be a wise choice, but I'm not quite sure if I understand correctly what the abilities of portupgrade are that portmaster lacks? Do you want to elaborate on that? ;)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20140128084935.GC16541>