From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 25 14:01:25 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8BEC0797 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:01:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 582B3A59 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-32.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.32]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s9PE1MxW001139 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:01:23 -0500 Message-ID: <544BAEA9.4060407@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:07:37 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More info on last post .... References: <544B2C36.6080600@hiwaay.net> <1745632.OG3xRRcUAb@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <1745632.OG3xRRcUAb@curlew.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:01:25 -0000 On 10/25/14 08:34, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Friday 24 Oct 2014 23:51:02 William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> i.e. nspluginwrapper seems to be locked in on linux-f10, rather >> than linux-c6 .... Since linux-c6 is supposed to be supplanting >> linux-f10, this might be a bug .... TIA for any help .... > The problem is that linux-c6 is not yet the default. Packages in the > repository which depend on linux are still being built against linux- > f10 - there's no mechanism for the repository to provide 2 different > builds of the same package. > > As a workaround until c6 becomes the default you could lock your > version of nspluginwrapper using the command "pkg lock > nspluginwrapper". This will prevent "pkg upgrade" from replacing it > with the f10 version. > > The downside of the workaround is that if a newer version of > nspluginwrapper is available in the repository "pkg upgrade" will work > through the list of packages to upgrade until it reaches > nspluginwrapper and then fail with a message saying that > nspluginwrapper is locked. At this stage you should use portmaster to > rebuild nspluginwrapper and then run "pkg upgrade" again. > > If some c6 dependencies are still in need of upgrading after the first > "pkg upgrade" run fails then portmaster will rebuild them so you might > wish to save some time by using pkg to upgrade them before running > portmaster. The command below should upgrade your out of date c6 > packages. > > pkg info -x 'linux.*c6' | xargs pkg rquery %n | xargs pkg upgrade > > This command creates a list of all your linux c6 packages, filters it > through pkg rquery to get a list of only those packages which are > available from the repository and then passes it through to pkg > upgrade. > > -- > Mike Clarke > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > *Booooyah* .... The 'pkg lock' worked like a champ .... Thx :-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.