Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:22:09 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem Message-ID: <20040409212209.GA43745@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200404091319.47679.kstewart@owt.com> References: <4076527F.1060902@users.sourceforge.net> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404092110300.28354@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> <20040409195959.GA43582@tao.thought.org> <200404091319.47679.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2004 01:00 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > > On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > I run a cvsup of ports-all on a machine I usually use for testing. If > something breaks down, I have the other machines to recover it from. I > log everything and convert it into html using Ben Smithurst's cvsuplog. > Then, I upade my INDEX[-5] and INDEX.db; however, before I build the > new INDEX, I convert the current INDEX into a bzip2'ed file and keep 3 > backups. A major disaster building INDEX is easily overcome by > unzipping one of the backups and the appropriate INDEX. > (Wisdom personified....) > > > > When I do a portupgrade, my script runs pkgdb -F as a first > > steps. ...Just my dime's worth. > > > > My dimes worth is that I won't run anything in a cronjob that may > require an answer from me. I also don't run pkgdb -F until portupgrade > tells me to do that. Since it updates the information when it is doing > upgrades, you only need to do it when it really has to be done. > To clear things up a bit, my upgrade scripts are not cron'd. --Experience is a solid teacher.-- One script does basically a portupgrade -ia, the other simply a -a; either way I have to sit thru the pkgdb -F. The rest of the scripts do portclean and leave a log of what needs to be upgraded. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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