Issues with 2.24 upgrade

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:50:19 -0600, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:

>> 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.

I see... The portmaster has no issue with that.

Cheers,
Mezz


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