Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

[Antonio Arredondo]

I used to have issues with portupgrade as well. I traced my problem to
using the wrong portupgrade. I have been using portupgrade for several
months without an issue ( except the Xorg 7 transition ). Make sure to
use

    /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade

and not

    /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade


I also follow the following port method, as per the handbook suggestion:

    portsnap fetch
    portsnap update

method. This has worked without an issue for me. I am running FreeBSD
6.2-RELEASE-p8.


I hope this helps.


---------------------------------
Antonio Arredondo
PhD Student
NMSU Computer Science Department
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~aarredon/
---------------------------------

> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
>
>> Not anymore!  Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those
>> ports
>> that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade
>> doesn't
>> work the way it used to work.  It is not fun any more!  Always an issue,
>> either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together.  I
>> have
>> forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues.  Today
>> scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same
>> directory.
> Did you have a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING ?
> (I guess you have got a problem with the latest gnome.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Uli.
>
>
>> Go figure.  Those were the days when it used to work.
>> _______________________________________________
>> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to
>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>>
>
>
>
> Peter Ulrich Kruppa
> Wuppertal
> Germany
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to
> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>