From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 21:46:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FCE16A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:46:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CF943D5A for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:46:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from [204.147.87.125] (borg.iaces.com [204.147.87.125]) (authenticated bits=0) by iaces.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA9Lkew5008907 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:46:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Message-ID: <43726E40.3090701@iaces.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:46:40 -0600 From: "Paul T. Root" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: gnome-upgrade.sh X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:46:42 -0000 This script is one of the most frustrating things ever written. I made a fresh install (from CD) of 6.0R. In the install I added gnome2, sudo, and bash. That's it. Gnome came up fine. bash is great, sudo works. Now, since gnome 2.12 is out, I want to upgrade to that. Seems resonable. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome tells us not to use portupgrade to upgrade gnome2. The upgrades get out of order. Ok fine, use gnome-upgrade.sh. And keep trying it says. I've run it better than a dozen times, now. It's still trying. All day, I turn and look at it periodically, resolve whatever problem it seems to be having and start it up again. 1 time it said that it was successful! Woo Hoo! Wait, 2 times, it just finished... However it lies. What it's done is removed gnome completely. The problem seems to lie in that downloads fail and so I get a bunch of files in /usr/ports/distfiles that are not valid. Using good old ftp, I grab the file needed and either build the port and install or restart gnome-upgrade.sh I'm now assuming that since all gnome has been wiped off the disk, that the thing to do is build/install the port directly. Starting that up, I seem to be having the same downloading difficulties. -- ______ Paul T. Root / _ \ 1977 MGB / /|| \\ ||\/ || _ | || || || \ ||__// \______/