Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:23:07 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> Cc: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Portupgrade (vs. Portmanager) question Message-ID: <20050329052307.GB760@Alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <424769D0.5030500@att.net> References: <424769D0.5030500@att.net>
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 06:20:00PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > Updating a computer, pkg_info reported I only had two packages, > cvsup-without-gui-16.1h and perl-5.8.5, both of which were out > of date as reported by pkg_version. > > I tried to install portmanager, but it was not able to get the > needed files from http://portmanager.sunsite.dk. > > So, I installed portupgrade. Those files came in fine. > > I then did "portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR", which was successful for me > several months ago on another computer. > > The computer ran for over nearly two hours, with messages scrolling > by so fast it was nearly impossible to read, filling up the screen with > text. I used script so as to capture the screen messages; the capture > file of the screen is 1.2MB in size! This is normal. > Now, pkg_info says I have 10 packages installed; added were ezm3, > gettext, gmake, libiconv, libtool, portupgrade,ruby and ruby18. If > these all required to make portupgrade or perl work, where is that > reference? These are in the port system /usr/ports/ > Help! What did I do? You told you system to install portmanager and the ports that it needs, but also all the ports that are based on it. Please check 'man portupgrade' about the options. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/
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