Should I update/updgrade/stay?

Kevin O'Connor kevin at ziptek-technologies.co.uk
Tue Jun 1 20:50:38 BST 2004


>-----Original Message-----
>From: freebsd-users-admin at uk.freebsd.org [mailto:freebsd-users-
>admin at uk.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Grant
>Sent: 01 June 2004 20:41
>To: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Should I update/updgrade/stay?
>
>Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: freebsd-users-admin at uk.freebsd.org [mailto:freebsd-users-
>>>admin at uk.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Grant
>>>Sent: 01 June 2004 10:53
>>>To: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
>>>Subject: Re: Should I update/updgrade/stay?
>>>
>>>Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: freebsd-users-admin at uk.freebsd.org [mailto:freebsd-users-
>>>>>admin at uk.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Seaman
>>>>>Sent: 31 May 2004 21:17
>>>>>To: Kevin O'Connor
>>>>>Cc: 'Grant'; freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
>>>>>Subject: Re: Should I update/updgrade/stay?
>>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 07:51:37PM +0100, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Read this article on portupgrade to find out how to use it after
you
>>>>>>have upgraded your ports. NB it has a problem upgrading it's self
so
>>>>>>make sure you have the up to date version installed, if not
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>deinstall
>>
>>
>>>>>>and install the lastest version
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4111
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>Yes -- an excellent article, well worth reading.
>>>>>
>>>>>I take issue with saying that portupgrade has problems upgrading
>>>>>itself though.  That simply isn't the case in my experience.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>Upgrades
>>
>>
>>>>>to portupgrade have always gone in very smoothly -- there was one
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>just
>>
>>
>>>>>the other day.
>>>>>
>>>>>Portupgrade did have a real problem a few months ago handling the
>>>>>upgrade of ruby-1.6 to ruby-1.8 (ruby is the language portupgrade
is
>>>>>written in).  There was a rather long-winded procedure added to
>>>>>/usr/ports/UPDATING explaining how to make it all work (search for
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>the
>>
>>
>>>>>20040226 datestamp).  But that's irrelevant if this is the first
time
>>>>>you're installing anything that uses ruby and you've got a recent
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>copy
>>
>>
>>>>>of the ports tree.
>>>>>
>>>>>	Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>	Matthew
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>I speak only as I've found it, every time portupgrade has tried to
>>>>upgrade it's self I've encountered a failure both with 4.9 and 5.21.
>>>>I've never had a problem with upgrading all the other ports I use.
>>>>Perhaps I need to review my initial procedures for installing cvsup
>>>>
>>>>
>>and
>>
>>
>>>>portupgrade. I'll investigate further on my next clean build
>>>>Regards
>>>>Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>hey all!
>>>
>>>update...
>>>
>>>I got ports to update... and i told it to upgrade what is
installed...
>>>*most* of it upgraded without any problems, but i have noticed a
>>>problem, once i upgraded the ports "portupgrade" disappeared and
>>>
>>>
>>wouldnt
>>
>>
>>>work, so i went and did a make install again, but it told me it was
>>>allready installed, which it was before the upgrade.
>>>
>>>so it told me to do a make deinstall or a make reinstall, the
reinstall
>>>didnt work, so i had to deinstall then make install, is this normal
for
>>>a port update/upgrade? i also had to do it for expat for apache to
>>>upgrade, is there a way i can make it more automated?
>>>
>>>but most of the packages upgraded perfect, the command i used was
>>>"portupgrade -arR" which was meant to satisfy the dependancys? or
have
>>>
>>>
>>i
>>
>>
>>>got the wrong option?
>>>
>>>Thank again.
>>>Grant.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Looks like you hit the same problem I keep finding but the uninstall
and
>>clean install fixes it for future use. Did you install portupgrade
>>before doing the cvsup to update the ports?
>>Regards
>>Kevin
>>
>>
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>
>hey!
>
>Yea i think i installed portupgrade before the cvsup, then after a
>portupgrade i then had to deinstall and then install it again...
>
>oh also, over the past few days i have installed quite a bit from the
>ports collection... now i keep forgetting to do a "make clean" after
>everything to clean up.... could i just cd to /usr/ports and run a make
>clean from there? that way it will just clean everything out that i
have
>used? or is there a better way of doing the clean :)
>
>Thanks
>Grant.
>
>

That will indeed perform a clean on all ports, it can take a while
though

Regards
Kevin





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