From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 21:14:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B90106566C for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:14:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net (relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net [212.159.7.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F9D08FC1E for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:14:23 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEABs7Q0tUXebz/2dsb2JhbADTdIQwBA Received: from relay02.plus.net ([84.93.230.243]) by relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 05 Jan 2010 21:14:17 +0000 Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1NSGjJ-0002w5-H0; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:14:17 +0000 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NSGjI-0009xW-Mr; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:14:17 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:14:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <201001021557.59944.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <201001031020.16348.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <4B407C2C.1060204@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B407C2C.1060204@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201001052114.16517.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 84a8e723b9ae3446f13e4db8f880fd1f Cc: Subject: Re: Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:14:24 -0000 On Sunday 03 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Mike Clarke wrote: > > After pondering a bit more over this problem I think I know where > > the 6.4 stuff may have come from. After I built the base system I > > copied various useful files from /root on the 6.4 system, > > including /root/.cshrc which contained a line setting PACKAGESITE > > to > > ftp://ftp2.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.4-relea > >se/All/ and it's quite possible that I ran portinstall -P for some > > ports before I got round to changing this to point to packages-8. > > Yep. This would stick a fairly hefty spanner in the works. It certainly made quite a mess but it's surprising how well the system has been running with all this damage. Thanks for your comments and suggestions regarding the rebuilding process. Although the procedure I had in mind was similar some of your suggestions hadn't occurred to me and are much appreciated, I would almost certainly have overlooked /compat/linux and the need to re-run config-recursive. I've copied my system over to a spare PC so I can rebuild all the ports on the original machine without loosing access to a (sort of) working system. All the ports have been deinstalled from the original machine and I will now start work on re-installing the ports. Rather than run a single massive upgrade job I'll follow my normal practise of getting xorg and my nvidia driver working first then install the rest in a big batch. -- Mike Clarke