fixes and comments on the upgrade script procedure

[Fernan Aguero]

+----[ Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> (09.Nov.2004 18:56):
|
| On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:49 -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
| > Hi!
| > 
| > I'm running the upgrade script since yesterday ... I hoped
| > to have it finished by now,  but anyway ... since I had
| > some spare time, and lacking a better thing to
| > do I decided to read the upgrade script :) 
| > 
| > Attached is a diff with what I think should be corrected.
| 
| The comment diff is fine, but the other is not needed.  You must have
| downloaded an old version of the script.

Probably ... i downloded it the day you posted the message
on the availability of gnome 2.8.1 in ports.

| > Also, it seems that though not explicitly specified in the
| > script, the upgrade procedure tried to rebuild openoffice.
| > This together with mozilla and firefox helps explain the
| > long time it is taking. Apart from the time issue, what
| > happened is that the attempt to build OOo made the upgrade
| > fail when /usr filled up. I never build OOo from sources,
| > and always use packages. I just don't have the space to
| > build such a monster. Perhaps it may be possible to perform a
| > 'dry-run' of the script, just checking what would be done
| > and thus allow the user to exclude some beasts?
| 
| Patches are welcome.  However, you can also specify portupgrade flags to
| the script to attempt to upgrade from packages if available.
| 
| Joe
|
+----]

Yes, but these flags would affect all the ports, wouldn't
they? I've just listed openoffice-* in HOLD_PKGS based on
the suggestion by Adam W.

Sorry for the noise, then,

Fernan

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