Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:46:40 -0600 From: "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@iaces.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: gnome-upgrade.sh Message-ID: <43726E40.3090701@iaces.com>
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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 / /|| \\ ||\/ || _ | || || || \ ||__// \______/
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