Trouble Upgrading Ports

[Jeff Cross]

Spadge wrote:
> Eric Schuele wrote:
>> Jeff Cross wrote:
>>
>>> I have been upgrading my ports using portupgrade -varR but have run
>>> across a few that are giving me fits.
>>>
>>> When trying to update scrollkeeper I get the following:
>>>
>>> You must have XML::Parser installed to run ../../intltool-merge
>>>
>>
>> I ran into this.  I did a `make deinstall` and `make reinstall` on
>> p5-XML-Parser.  it did the trick.
>>
>> But Now I have other problems see "Trouble building gnomeprint".  I do
>> not know if they are related in any way.
> 
> I found that with the recent update of perl5, an awful lot of perl5's
> little wizards are failing to portupgrade as the system tries to install
> them as dependancies even though (or because) they are already installed.
> 
> I once wrote a shell script to combat this sort of behaviour, as it is
> something I have run up against time and time again with the perl5 port.
> It looks something like this (I fully expect my email to kill the
> formatting of this, with like linewrap and everything, so beware):
> 
> ~
> #!/usr/local/bin/bash
> 
> # IMPORTANT!!!!1 - requires 'where' script ... see end of file.
> # Also depends on portinstall.
> 
> PERLIST="/usr/home/spadge/perl.list" # file to hold the names of your
> installed perl5 crap
> PERLDEL=`where perl-5.8 | awk '{print $1}'`
> PERLINST=`where perl-5.8 | awk '{print $4}'`
> # If you use a different version of perl, you'll want to change the above
> # PERLDEL and PERLINST lines to match it.
> 
> 
> touch $PERLIST
> 
> pkgdb -Fu
> 
> pkgdb -Fu
> 
> # ok, this is the line that populates $PERLIST
> for i in `(pkg_info -R perl-5\* |tail +4; find
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.[68].[1245] -type f -print0 | xargs -0
> pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //')|sort -u`; do where $i >>
> $PERLIST; done
> 
> # from here on the actual (un)installing is done
> for i in `sort -u $PERLIST | awk '{print $1}'`; do pkg_delete -f $i; done
> 
> pkg_delete -f $PERLDEL
> 
> cd /usr/ports/$PERLINST; make install
> 
> for i in `sort -u $PERLIST | awk '{print $4}'`; do portinstall $i; done
> #and that's it.
> 
> echo "perl (and all it's little wizards) has been updated."
> echo "Before running this script again, either:"
> echo "a) delete " $PERLIST ", or"
> echo "b) comment out the line that populates it"
> 
> ################################################################################
> 
> #        #
> # As mentioned earlier, you need to have 'where' on your path.        #
> #        #
> # Get it from http://www.ramblingwaffles.net/where or create an
> executable     #
> # file called 'where' on your path, and paste the following into it:
>        #
> #        #
> # #! /usr/local/bin/bash        #
> # for i in `ls /var/db/pkg | grep $1`; do echo $i "is in" `pkgdb -o $i`;
> done  #
> #        #
> ################################################################################
> 
> #
> # That's all folks. Written by spadge at fromley.net
> # thanks to the perl port maintainer for the horrible xargs.
> ~
> 
> As to the bash3 upgrade problem, I found that getting the
> bash-3.1.tar.gz source and bash31-010 patch from
> http://ftp.wayne.edu/pub/gnu/bash/ and manually putting them in
> /path/to/ports/distfiles/bash/ fixed it for me.
> 

Thanks, Spadge, for the location for Bash 3.1.  I downloaded the files
listed above and it upgraded like a champ.

Thanks to everyone else as well for their assistance with the Perl 5
upgrade.  Now if only OpenOffice.org-2.0 could compile in a timley
fashion... Going on 20 hours now...

Jeff Cross