From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 21:55:07 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 19B3416A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:55:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6119A43D6E for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:54:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so452295wra for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:54:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=QhuYKEIbZoaX+SPH31m5GM0rgugTJ+uehxpAdJi2/LJ2s3Hlx9fcjiED1CVkEHBn63qaCiaLE8K7UKhfNfSEeIhXNfjZ5br+NnY4zNoJoyqX8TQRM/lZ127yCwnhUnzd3VBwnoexIF0BEVHXNTICzm38mMrdSTu2WsaApKsq1vI= Received: by 10.54.147.5 with SMTP id u5mr6202wrd; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:54:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm1389904wrl.2005.11.09.13.54.58; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:54:59 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:46:21 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <43726E40.3090701@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <43726E40.3090701@iaces.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511091346.22446.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Paul T. Root" Subject: Re: 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 21:55:07 -0000 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