Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:07:37 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More info on last post .... Message-ID: <544BAEA9.4060407@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <1745632.OG3xRRcUAb@curlew.lan> References: <544B2C36.6080600@hiwaay.net> <1745632.OG3xRRcUAb@curlew.lan>
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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 The command below should upgrade your out of date c6 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.
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