Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:46:33 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: galeon2 Message-ID: <20040101004633.2C7E05D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> <1072908853.77399.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:14:13 -0500 > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > > In general, a portupgrade -fa should take care of everything. Yes, this works, but it typically takes about a day and, if I have not updated recently, I will likely have some failures. It took me three days to completely rebuild everything on my old 450 MHz K6-3 system, and that STILL did not do the trick. I ended up doing: find /usr/local -ctime +5 > local-old.log find /usr/X11R6/ -ctime +5 > X11-old.log which showed me a lot of old cruft. Once I deleted all the junk, everything finally built correctly. But that took two more days. portupgrade(8) is a wonderful tool, but it seems to work best if you update fairly often. I have few issues on my laptop which I update every few days at the longest and often every day. My old K6 system only gets updates every two or three months and it often is far more difficult to keep happy. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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