Date: 08 Nov 2005 08:15:19 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major Error Upgrading to GNOME 2.12 Message-ID: <4464r3nuvs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4370468B.9060407@gti.net> References: <4370468B.9060407@gti.net>
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Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> writes: > 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. In the worst case, you should be able to delete all the Gnome-related ports and re-add them. [I did that on purpose, because my only Gnome machine is *so* much slower than my build server.] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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