gnome update

[Doug Barton]

Ganbold wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> Ganbold wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to update gnome to 2.16 using portmaster for more than 3 
>>> days :(
>>
>> I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble. Are you sure you're 
>> using the latest version of portmaster (1.9)?
> 
> Yes.

Ok, good.

>>> 1. Every time after some error when I try to run portmaster -r 
>>> pkg-config\*
>>> it starts from the beginning. Maybe there is some option to skip 
>>> updated ports. How to tell portmaster to skip updated ports?
>>
>> By definition the -r flag means "update the ports that depend on this 
>> port no matter what." Jeremy's suggestion of using the -i flag is a 
>> good one though. You will only have to enter your choices (to build a 
>> port or not) only one time, during the 'make config' stage.
> 
> ok, but how do I know whether particular port was updated or not, if I 
> didn't check before the port version?

If you're not sure, go ahead and let portmaster update it. Due to the 
change from X11BASE to LOCALBASE this is a particularly important 
upgrade.

>>> 3. While portmaster running, I manually updated libtheora port.  When
>>> portmaster reaches libtheora, it stops with error.
>>
>> It's not really a good idea to do that, but it's impossible to advise 
>> you without knowing what the error was.
> 
> When you make install certain port it complains to deinstall and 
> reinstall again. So this is the error I forgot to mention.

Well, you're probably better off in that situation to just let 
portmaster handle the update.

hth,

Doug

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