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Date:      Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:21:37 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        pjklist@ekahuna.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrading the Portupgrade port
Message-ID:  <200212261321.37178.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021226205956950.AAA348@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
References:  <20021226113141988.AAA328@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> <20021226205956950.AAA348@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>

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On Thursday 26 December 2002 12:59 pm, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> On 26 Dec 2002 at 11:56, Kent Stewart boldly uttered:
> > On Thursday 26 December 2002 03:35 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > Have things improved in the meantime?  Is there an easy way to
> > > upgrade Portupgrade without removing everything and
> > > re-installing?  I currently have the 20020706 version installed.
> >
> > You version is so far back that the upgrade is hopeless. You have
> > things that no long exist as parts of portupgrade and your version
> > can't deal with that. It is easier if you delete the portupgrade,
> > ruby-*, pkg_tartup, and what ever is left and reinstall it.
> >
> > FWIW, it works flawlessly now. I just recently upgraded to the 1216
> > version by using "portupgrade -rpuf ruby".
>
> Thanks for the tip, although I must admit I'm kinda surprised that a
> 5-month-old version of anything is considered so "ancient" as to be
> "un-upgradeable"... particularly a program designed to upgrade other
> programs..  <shrug>

The break point is around 20020907 and I can't be precise. Anything=20
before that can't deal with ports that have disappeared. If you have a=20
version before that, the easiest way is to delete portupgrade and its=20
dependancies and reinstall it. Everything from ruby-1.6.8 to=20
portupgrade is new so you don't lose any time but you do get a clean=20
install on the first try.

Running portsdb -F produces signal errors when you have a port installed=20
that is no longer in the port tree. I don't remember if -fu worked at=20
that point or not.

Kent

>
> But I'm not really complaining, portupgrade is a boon to all
> humanity. :-)

--=20
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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