5.1 upgrade from 5.0

Odhiambo Washington wash at wananchi.com
Tue Nov 25 23:49:26 PST 2003


* Chris Neustrup <druid45 at idiom.com> [20031126 09:30]: wrote:
> I have just upgraded my Thinkpad from 5.0 to 5.1.  It all seems to be 
> working OK.  I have tried to get a new X server running and discovered 
> that the ports collection is now different.  I tried to do a make on an 
> X server, and it failed with an error message about COMMENTFILE being 
> deprecated.  I then tried several other ports in astro, and some 
> others.  They all fail in the same way:
> 
> ===> SETIsupport
> There is a COMMENTFILE in this port.
> COMMENTFILEs have been deprecated in
> favor of COMMENT variables.
> Please, rectify this.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/astro.
> 
> 
> Woe is me.  What can I do?


If you had installed cvsup, then just do cvsup and get
a fresh now ports tree, I think.



-Wash

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