Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:41:51 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to do after cvsupit for ports? Message-ID: <3D6FCA7F.2090302@owt.com> References: <20020830133609.A336@houston.rr.com>
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Joseph Lephan wrote: > I have portupgrade installed also...but when i attemp to upgrade a file, so many error messages appear, its not even funny. > > Am I supposed to recompile kernel, or make some adjustments? Updating your ports is more involved than you are probably doing. For example, every time you cvsup ports-all, you have to run "portsdb -uU" for your /usr/ports/INDEX* files to be updated. This has to be done before portupgrade has INDEX* files of any real value. Portupgrade doesn't always work. For example, if you have too many side lines, you have to do each line individually. What it does really well is upgrade dependancies that depend on one port such as libxml2. It changes frequently and if you portupgrade -ruf libxml2, it does a really good job of updating everything that depends on libxml2. If XFree86-libraries also changed, things can get a little confused if you only portupgrade libxml2. You will end up with duplicate entries and have to pkgdb -F to fix them. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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