Issues with 2.24 upgrade

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:32:29 -0600
> From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:09:09 -0600, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> 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]
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Is your ports/MOVED up to date? The pkgdb is supposed to understand MOVED  
> (not use pkgdb/portupgrade for very long time), right?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I can add '-f' in UPDATING. Thanks for report!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > Neither system is local to me ATM, so I have not confirmed whether Gnome
> > 2.24 is working OK. I'll do that tomorrow.
> >
> > As always, thanks to the Gnome team for the great work!

Yep. I have confirmed that those ports are in MOVED, but that was no
enough to deal with the merge. It works for renames and actual moves,
but merges seem beyond it's capability.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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