Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:18:50 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fixes and comments on the upgrade script procedure Message-ID: <20041110011850.GB28553@iib.unsam.edu.ar> In-Reply-To: <1100037439.17375.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20041109204948.GA1732@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <1100037439.17375.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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+----[ Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> (09.Nov.2004 18:56):
|
| On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:49 -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
| > Hi!
| >
| > I'm running the upgrade script since yesterday ... I hoped
| > to have it finished by now, but anyway ... since I had
| > some spare time, and lacking a better thing to
| > do I decided to read the upgrade script :)
| >
| > Attached is a diff with what I think should be corrected.
|
| The comment diff is fine, but the other is not needed. You must have
| downloaded an old version of the script.
Probably ... i downloded it the day you posted the message
on the availability of gnome 2.8.1 in ports.
| > Also, it seems that though not explicitly specified in the
| > script, the upgrade procedure tried to rebuild openoffice.
| > This together with mozilla and firefox helps explain the
| > long time it is taking. Apart from the time issue, what
| > happened is that the attempt to build OOo made the upgrade
| > fail when /usr filled up. I never build OOo from sources,
| > and always use packages. I just don't have the space to
| > build such a monster. Perhaps it may be possible to perform a
| > 'dry-run' of the script, just checking what would be done
| > and thus allow the user to exclude some beasts?
|
| Patches are welcome. However, you can also specify portupgrade flags to
| the script to attempt to upgrade from packages if available.
|
| Joe
|
+----]
Yes, but these flags would affect all the ports, wouldn't
they? I've just listed openoffice-* in HOLD_PKGS based on
the suggestion by Adam W.
Sorry for the noise, then,
Fernan
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