Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:37:42 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4 Makefile Message-ID: <p05101509b8bc36328f68@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020318154352.C71020@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200203181643.g2IGhnW66937@freefall.freebsd.org> <3C96742F.12AFE590@newsguy.com> <20020318231354.GA17607@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020318154352.C71020@xor.obsecurity.org>
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At 3:43 PM -0800 3/18/02, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>Knu and Will have worked out that this is caused by
>portupgrade's default behaviour of preserving shared
>libraries when deinstalling a package. portupgrade
>deinstalls XFree86-4 during the rebuild process, but
>leaves the shlibs in place, and they're detected by
>the ports collection.
>
>Using the '-u' flag to portupgrade should fix this.
...and Garance maintains that everyone is misunderstanding
the basic problem here. I do not wish to annoy everyone
who has obviously put orders of magnitude of work into
this port, but I would suggest that anyone who had the
original "megaport" installed might want to try:
/usr/local/sbin/pkg_deinstall XFree86
/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -n XFree86
-> say 'no' to XFree86,
'yes' to XFree86-4
/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -n imake
-> say 'no' to imake,
'yes' to imake-4
/usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -F
shutdown -r now
You shouldn't really have to install imake-4, but pkgdb
will be confused if you do not.
People who did not already have the "4.2 megaport" installed
should probably just ignore me. With the above strategy I
have successfully upgraded from the megaport to the metaport,
with no particularly strange problems. It does mean that
you effectively have no X installed from the time you do
the pkg_deinstall until the portupgrade completes, and I
can understand that is annoying. However, it did work fine
for me, and it is a perfectly sensible strategy (except
maybe the 'imake' part...).
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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