Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 08:43:03 -0400 From: Dantavious <derrick@uniquestrength.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instructions for xorg 7.2 upgrade using portmaster Message-ID: <200705270843.03798.derrick@uniquestrength.net> In-Reply-To: <46594789.8030900@FreeBSD.org> References: <46594789.8030900@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sunday 27 May 2007 04:55:37 Doug Barton wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Thanks to all who've inquired about doing the xorg upgrade using
> portmaster. I appreciate your patience in waiting for me to provide
> instructions for it, but it's been quite an exciting journey. I just
> committed a new version of portmaster (1.17) that has many new
> features and enhancements, several of which are required for the upgrade.
>
> Please note that if you can do it, the _best_ way to use portmaster to
> do the upgrade is still to run 'pkg_delete -f xorg*' followed by
> 'portmaster x11/xorg', but if you can't or don't want to do that, read
> on. :) The problem that you'll inevitably run into is that due to the
> vast number of files that are moving from one port to another,
> combined with the way portmaster does depth-first updates, old port A
> is going to be deleted after new port B has already installed one or
> more new files with the same name, leading to either a failed build or
> rebuilding of the dependency. We can minimize that problem, but we
> can't avoid it altogether. So, here we go ...
>
> 0. Update to version 1.17 of portmaster (or newer if available), and
> take a glance at the man page.
>
> 1. Add 'X11BASE= ${LOCALBASE}' to /etc/make.conf. Strictly speaking
> this should not be necessary, but I ran into weirdness without it.
>
> 2. Export XORG_UPGRADE into your environment (see /usr/ports/UPDATING)
>
> 3. Read the 20070519 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING, and any newer
> entries that pertain to the upgrade.
>
> 4. pkg_delete -f the xorg-manpages, xorg-fonts-misc-bitmaps, and
> xorg-libraries ports. These ports are guaranteed to delete new files
> when they are pkg_delete'd, and there is no way around it.
>
> 5. Consider doing 'rm -r /var/db/ports/*', or adding the new
> --force-config option to the beginning of each command line below.
>
> 6. Start the script per UPDATING.
>
> 7. portmaster -wv /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries
> If you can be sure (either through using WRKDIRPREFIX or pre-cleaning
> your /usr/ports/ tree) that you have no stale work directories,
> consider adding the -C flag. If you want to delete the old distfiles
> without prompting, add -d.
>
> 8. portmaster -v[Cd] /usr/ports/devel/imake
>
> 9. portmaster -v[Cd] -w -r libXft
> If this build fails at any point (and it probably will at least once)
> then add -R to the command line when you restart it in order to avoid
> having to rebuild things already built. This is probably a good time
> to add the -C option if the build fails part way through the make
> phase of a port to avoid having to rebuild that part of the port
> that's already done. If your build fails often with trying to install
> a port that's already installed (part of the chicken/egg problem
> described above) consider adding -m"-DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER" to the
> portmaster command line. It's not an ideal solution, but it's a time
> saver, and it works.
>
> 10. portmaster -v[Cd] -w /usr/ports/x11/xorg
> The -R option as described above won't help you here, but the other
> information from 9. applies.
>
> 11. portmaster -v[Cd] -w -a
>
> 12. portmaster [-d] -s
>
> 13. portmaster [-d] --clean-distfiles
>
> 14. Enjoy the brave new world of xorg 7.2 :)
>
>
> Good luck,
>
> Doug
>
> PS, One request, please do not mail me directly asking for help with
> the upgrade. You're much better off posting a message here on
> freebsd-ports@ so that you can get help that much sooner. I will of
> course be monitoring the list closely. Thanks.
Thanks for the great tool and the instructions.
v/r
Derrick
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