Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 09:13:02 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UPDATING entry needed for MATE update from 1.12 to 1.18 Message-ID: <CAN6yY1udUbkNtFTDKPdti--ZCrkDrQ1wQi%2BnnxjMCLwFzemKWw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1499525800.1500.1.camel@rainbow-runner.nl> References: <CAN6yY1sZbac94OL6XmmgMDDUjsN%2Bb90qgmN5bbRasLTDSDbVGQ@mail.gmail.com> <1499525800.1500.1.camel@rainbow-runner.nl>
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On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> wrote: > On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 10:17 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > To successfully update from mate-1.12 to 1.18, the port mate-control- > > center > > must first be deleted (pkg delete -f mate-control-center) as some > > files for > > installed by mate-menus were previously part of mate-control-center. > > > > I believe that a note to this effect should be made to > > ports/UPDATING. > > Is this with portmaster by chance? I just did a update with pkg default > packages and it worked fine. > > -Koop > This is true of any attempt to upgrade from ports, whether using portmaster, portupgrade or manually running "make install". Until the ports Mk files develop the ability to check the pkg database for conflicts (not likely any tie soon), I think it is important to note these in UPDATING. Especially since the command to deal with the issue (pkg delete -f) is not tool specific. I will admit that most people who build from ports are not newbies and know how to deal with these issues, but it will help some and, after all, this is the sort of thing UPDATING is for. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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