Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:48:46 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major Error Upgrading to GNOME 2.12 Message-ID: <200511072248.47331.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4370468B.9060407@gti.net> References: <4370468B.9060407@gti.net>
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On Monday 07 November 2005 22:32, Bob Perry wrote: > This past weekend, I CVSup'd the ports tree and prepared to run > portupgrade. I noticed a large number of GNOME ports in my output from > pkg_version and, found that I would need to run the GNOME Project 's > upgrade script to upgrade to 2.12. > > I use a dial-up modem had been timed out on several occasions.during the > process This happened about three times during the night and I had to > restart the upgrade each time. Note that I failed to use the restart > flag recommended during the first restart. I finally ended up with a > "succesful upgrade..." message even though I now have only 188 ports > after beginning with 297. Amongst the missing is gnome 2.12 itself. > > I'm hoping there is some way to get things back to normal and rerun the > upgrade without re-installing the missing ports. BTW, I did back up > /var/db/pkg. > > Any advice would be appreciated. I run 5.4 -RELEASE #0. I'm running > this message from a second machine but should be able to supply the logs > if needed. > > Thanks, > Bob Perry get sysutils/portmanager make sure it is version 0.3.3, you need a very up to date tree, then run portmanager x11/gnome2 -Mike
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