From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 21: 3:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C7937B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6731243EC5 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip.stjohn.ac.th ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA09959 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:03:00 -0700 (GMT) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20021231120143.00a02660@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: stjohn.stjohn.ac.th:mcrogerm@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:03:35 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Roger Merritt Subject: Re: Upgrading the Portupgrade port In-Reply-To: <200212261156.49247.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20021226113141988.AAA328@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> <20021226113141988.AAA328@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:56 AM 12/27/02, you wrote: >On Thursday 26 December 2002 03:35 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > Once upon a time it was said that one of the cool things about > > Portupgrade, was that you could use it to upgrade itself. > > ("portupgrade -{|r|R} portupgrade") > > > > But this never worked for me - caused all sorts of weird Ruby and > > dependency problems, orphaned Ruby shim thingies, etc. > > > > So I got into the habit of completely removing Portupgrade and > > everything associated with it including all the Ruby stuff, and > > reinstalling them all, in order to upgrade. (it was the only way that > > worked for me) > > > > Have things improved in the meantime? Is there an easy way to > > upgrade Portupgrade without removing everything and re-installing? I > > currently have the 20020706 version installed. > >You version is so far back that the upgrade is hopeless. You have things >that no long exist as parts of portupgrade and your version can't deal >with that. It is easier if you delete the portupgrade, ruby-*, >pkg_tartup, and what ever is left and reinstall it. > >FWIW, it works flawlessly now. I just recently upgraded to the 1216 >version by using "portupgrade -rpuf ruby". Just out of curiosity, wouldn't 'portupgrade -rR portupgrade' work as well? -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message