Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:26:13 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Gnome-210 upgrade comments Message-ID: <20050313122613.337f7e4f.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
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Nice job guys! I ended up with an upgrade successful message. I did run into a couple of stops along the way. If I had really read the script and thought about it they probably could have been avoided. Of course I didn't do that so I thought I'd share the consequences of my actions. If portaudit is being used and there are any installed ports which have a security issue then gnome_upgrade.sh will fail. The gnome_upgrade.sh does a pkg_deinstall and later tries to pkg_install which fails since there is a security issue with that port. I took the sledge hammer approach and removed portaudit. The /var/db/portaudit database also had to be removed. There are probably better ways to do this but I couldn't think of any at 3am ;-) Adding a reminder or method to disable the portaudit security check would have avoided that restart of the gnome_upgrade script. BTW, that works really nice. The only other bump was multimedia/avidemux2 which has a build problem on 4.x and amd64 platforms. The ports/78717 fixes this but hasn't been committed yet. This was my only port that was "out-of-date" and caused the gnome_upgrade.sh to stop. After adding avidemux2 to the "HOLD_PKGS" section of /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf, restarting the gnome_upgrade.sh ran to a successful completion. I noticed that when the gnome_update.sh script would stop that quite a few packages that had been installed were still missing. Being a bit more cautious, I always used the -restart option for the script since I wasn't sure if starting the script fresh would reinstall those packages. After a short nap, all of this seems perfectly obvious and things were doing what they had been told. Next time, I'll do the nap *before* the update. Thanks to the team for all the work in this update! Best regards, Randy --
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