Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 22:01:18 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster -af and databases/db41 Message-ID: <53758D8E.1030007@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <53753227.3000907@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <53752562.8010205@dreamchaser.org> <53753227.3000907@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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> If you have an earlier version of db41 installed, then portmaster -af > will try and upgrade it to a later version of the db41 port, with the > observed warning about the port being deprecated. > > You need to tell portmaster to replace db41 with db5 -- > > portmaster -o db5 db41 Thanks, that part worked great. (other than it needed to be "portmaster -o databases/db5 db41") > and then force reinstall everything that used to depend on db41 but that > now depends on db5 --- > > portmaster -fr db5 > > before proceeding with trying to update everything else. But now I'm seeing something weird. The portmaster -fr db5 seems to be in an infinite loop, repeatedly installing pkg.1.2.7_2 The following is showing up repeatedly in the stdout stream: ===> scripts/sbin (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 555 pkg2ng /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg/work/stage/u sr/local/sbin/pkg2ng ====> Compressing man pages (compress-man) ===>>> Creating a backup package for old version pkg-1.2.7_2 Creating package for pkg-1.2.7_2 Checking on the dates of the installed packages: ~$ diff info_pkg.txt_1 info_pkg.txt_2 4c4 < Installed on : Thu May 15 21:33:42 MDT 2014 --- > Installed on : Thu May 15 21:38:16 MDT 2014 ~$ diff info_gettext.txt_1 info_gettext.txt_2 4c4 < Installed on : Thu May 15 21:35:55 MDT 2014 --- > Installed on : Thu May 15 21:54:55 MDT 2014 Checking on the running processes: $ ps ax | grep portmaster 14754 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster gobject-introspec 34314 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster libiconv-1.14_3 51555 v1 I+ 0:00.02 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -fr db5 61302 v1 I+ 0:00.03 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -o editors/openof 61358 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster atk-2.8.0 83679 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster gettext-0.18.3.1_ 35987 v4 S+ 0:00.00 grep portmaster $ ps ax | grep portmaster 14754 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster gobject-introspec 43500 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster glib-2.36.3_2 43550 v1 S+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster libiconv-1.14_3 51555 v1 I+ 0:00.02 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -fr db5 61302 v1 I+ 0:00.03 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -o editors/openof 61358 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster atk-2.8.0 45220 v4 S+ 0:00.00 grep portmaster hints? Thanks, Gary
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