Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 22:25:46 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: updating ports to HEAD Message-ID: <CAN6yY1s=GHiH2XaCy=X9dpM6gHtzt25hQudzyHbtKR=q3bT7bA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130402050309.GA2357@tinyCurrent> References: <20130401144605.GA3932@tinyCurrent> <CAN6yY1tMiJNA4a43yKzurqfQpMoY%2BKcOuW9%2BVR9K_b3%2Bqx0kOQ@mail.gmail.com> <20130402050309.GA2357@tinyCurrent>
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On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El d=C3=ADa Monday, April 01, 2013 a las 08:54:59PM -0700, Kevin Oberman > escribi=C3=B3: > > > > Is there something in the base system of r235646 which would not allo= w > > > to do so, i.e. which is to old for HEAD of ports? > > > > > > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "update /usr/ports with SVN to > HEAD", > > since ports does not branch, so any time you "svn up /usr/potrts", it i= s > > updated to head. > > I used the term 'HEAD' because the SVN command I have used was: > > # svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports > Assuming you previously deleted /usr/ports/*, that should so it > > Any version of FreeBSD 8 or newer should work fine with > > ports/head. Note that some ports will need to be compiled with gcc as > not > > all will work with clang. > > thanks; > > > > > Are you having a problem updating (or checking out) head or with some o= f > > the ports after the update? > > the system in question hast around 1200 ports compiled based on the CVS > checkout of ports on May 19 last year; I want to check if I could > compile Ekiga out of its GIT, wich needs gtk+3.4.x and other recent > stuff; I will just for a test rename /usr/local and /var/db/pkg, update > the ports to 'HEAD' and compile them again to see if this would solve > the problem and make Ekiga happy. > > Thanks for your feedback > Good luck. I suspect a successful update of ptlib will be the real tricky part. At least it gave me headaches back when I was using Ekiga. Also, gtk-3 has well over 400 dependencies. You will probably need to update some of these, so check UPDATING for those that need special attention. Good luck! --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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