Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:10:10 -1000 From: Kevin <battdude@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade failure Message-ID: <7314e5020912171410m172b95c9ke0ffde16ba23567c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091217052400.GC32037@lonesome.com> References: <7314e5020912161917s355d02c9l16c996043c753044@mail.gmail.com> <19241.45040.505925.616766@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20091217052400.GC32037@lonesome.com>
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:13:36PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: >> The maintainer, ruby@, is aware of this; a check of the PR >> database shows multiple open PRs, none critical but many serious >> going back six months and more. > > As an aside, the Severity and Priority fields have been so often abused > as to have become meaningless. =A0Although I still try to groom the db > for "critical" ones, and thus try to get those some attention, I really > don't think the committers pay much attention. =A0(In general I think > those should be reserved for "data corruption" and "security".) > > The longer-term solution is to remove those as user-settable fields. > >> This hard to understand given portupgrade is the recommended upgrade >> tool. > > Once the individual who was working on it gave it up to the mailing > list, it became one of those "everyone is responsible so no one is > responsible" problems. =A0I don't have a recommended fix for this. > > Having said that, I have a ports tree as of a month ago and portupgrade > was working ok for me. =A0I don't have the cycles to go figure out where > it fails to be able to fix it, sorry. > > mcl Thanks to everyone for the tips. I downgraded to portupgrade-2.4.6_2,2, and am able to update my ports/packages again. I had seen others commenting on portupgrade being broken in the past, but the ruby errors made me wonder if it was actually a ruby problem.
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