UPDATING 20110730

[Doug Barton]

On 07/30/2011 12:38, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> 20110730:
>>   AFFECTS: users of x11-toolkits/gtk20
>>   AUTHOR: gnome at FreeBSD.org
>>
>>   The gtk-update-icon-cache utility has been slipt out of the gtk20 port.
> 
> A minor typo in the above line - slipt -> split.
> 
>>   Use the following instructions to update your system.
>>   
>>   # pkg_delete -f gtk-2.\*
>>   # portmaster x11-toolkits/gtk20
> 
> I would like to warn other users and at the same time ask for alternative
> instructions.

I don't think that's necessary.

> I have a regular (consumer) HDD and not so huge amount of RAM.
> I also have many (maybe very many) ports depending on gtk20 and some other
> loosely related ports like glib and gobject-introspection.
> Execution of the above command already takes more than an hour which is spent
> inside portmaster. 

I am not sure what you mean by "inside portmaster" is quite accurate. I
followed the instructions and everything worked according to plan. The
vast majority of the wall clock time spent following these instructions
is in the compilation of the various ports. Very very little is actually
spent "in portmaster" in the sense of time spent by portmaster
performing its functions.

> I have hundreds of lines like the following in portmaster output:
> 
>         ===>>> x11-toolkits/gtk20 is listed as a dependency
>         ===>>> but there is no installed version

Yes, that's to be expected since it's accurate. :)  Every time
portmaster installs a port it updates the +CONTENTS and +REQUIRED_BY
files as appropriate. If the condition described above exists it lets
you know, but since this is almost always a transient error it continues
processing which is usually what is necessary to correct the problem
anyway.

I've considered adding code to avoid the spurious warnings but they are
harmless and don't happen very often so I haven't bothered.

In short, I don't think there is anything wrong here.


Doug

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