Issues with 2.24 upgrade

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 13:09 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I have upgraded two systems following the instructions in UPDATING and
> have some issues. I'm not too sure of the significance, but I want ed
> report them.
> 
> One system is new (as of Dec. 20) with gnome2, gnome2-office,
> gnome2-powertools and gnome2-fifth-toe installed from ports.
> 
> First, when I ran 'pkgdb -Ff', I got:
> Duplicated origin: x11-toolkits/gtk20 - gail-1.22.3 gtk-2.14.7
> Unregister any of them? [no] 

gail was absorbed into gtk20.  So the proper answer is yes, and to
unregister gail.  This should be the default if you answer yes to this
first question.

> 
> I had no idea which, if either to unregister. Similar message on
> fast-user-switch-applet-2.22.0_3 and gdm. I did not unregister any of
> them and proceeded to deinstall gtkmm and run the big portupgrade.

The same is true for gdm and fusa.  Unregister fusa, and keep gdm.

> 
> At the end of the upgrade, I got the following messages:
> ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>  * x11-toolkits/gtk20 (gail-1.22.3)
>  * x11/gdm (fast-user-switch-applet-2.22.0_3)
>  ! x11/gnome2 (gnome2-2.22.3_1) (install error)
> 
> I ran pkgdb -Ff again and then I unregistered gail. Most (all?) gnome
> ports had the dependency corrected. I think that this was not a problem,
> but it was something I was unsure of.
> 
> I then re-installed gnome2 and all appeared to be OK. I finally did
> 'portupgrade gnome-session'. This was a no-op and gnome-session had
> already been upgraded, so I did 'portupgrade -f gnome-session'. If this
> was what was expected, I think UPDATING should be updated to reflect
> this as well as the issue of the pkgdb run.

Yeah.

Joe

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