From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 23: 1:26 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 EFB8137B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:01:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7694743EA9 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:01:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA16204; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:01:20 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Kent Stewart To: Roger Merritt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading the Portupgrade port Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:01:19 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021226113141988.AAA328@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20021231120143.00a02660@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20021231120143.00a02660@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212302301.19580.kstewart@owt.com> 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 On Monday 30 December 2002 09:03 pm, Roger Merritt wrote: > 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? Ruby was the base element that had changed and you only needed to build=20 ports that depended on it. There could have been ports others than=20 portupgrade that used ruby.=20 I don't see any dependancy on portupgrade and the "-r" would have been=20 meaningless and from experience "-R" wouldn't have followed chains=20 using ruby.=20 Kent --=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message