Recovering from borked upgrade

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Your Name wrote:

> Really, i thought i read the Updating doc thoroughly
> but i guess i missed something.
>
> i just tried to upgrade to 2.10, and after the usual
> minor problems that i fixed, things ended successfully
> much more quickly than usual. Then i realized that,
> unlike earlier times, i was supposed to use "restart"
> after the problems.
>
> So the 60 packages that it deleted at the start stayed
> deleted. Including important things like Gaim and
> Firefox.
>
> i portinstalled gdm and then metacity before realizing
> i should just do gnome2. Thats running and probably
> will be for a while. Will this work or should i do
> something else to recover? i guess i can do the other
> packages like Gaim and firefox by hand, but i want the
> rest of it to work right, like booting into
> gdm/metacity/eterm like usual.
>
> Thanks--i do think the Updating doc should stress more
> clearly the need to use "restart'.

You should have a gnome_upgrade_lst.* file in /var/tmp, or wherever 
MC_TMPDIR was pointed.  If you run gnome_upgrade.sh -restart <lst file> 
gnome_upgrade.sh will pick up where it left off, and re-add the remaining 
ports.

Alternatively, you can do:

cat /var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_lst.* | xargs portinstall

But the upgrade script wraps things nicely for you.

Joe

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