Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:46:21 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@iaces.com> Subject: Re: gnome-upgrade.sh Message-ID: <200511091346.22446.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43726E40.3090701@iaces.com> References: <43726E40.3090701@iaces.com>
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On Wednesday 09 November 2005 13:46, Paul T. Root wrote: > 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. As an alternative to gnome-upgrade.sh you may want to consider using sysutils/portmanager, all you need do is run portmanager x11/gnome2 It'll do the upgrade no problem, tested it twice now myself. -Mike
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