Portupgrade won't upgrade

Michael Abbott michael at araneidae.co.uk
Thu Jun 22 16:07:33 BST 2006


On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:22:36PM +0100, Edmund Craske wrote:
> I'll just say that I don't believe this is anything to do with the way 
> portupgrade works, but to do with the way that the ports system works.
My suspicion, also.

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Glyn Grinstead wrote:
> The port for portupgrade seems to have had a flurry of commits this 
> month, a number of which were then rolled back on Monday.
Ah.  Yes, um, mm.  That's good to know!

> If your current version of portupgrade is working at the moment I'd be 
> tempted to just let this one rest for a week or so and see what happens 
> then :-)

Thank you, that sounds like rather good advice...

It's a shame there's no notion of a "release" for ports: I'd be very merry 
with a stable ports leaf that only updates to "known to be good" versions 
(c.f. my os version).




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