Problems Compiling after upgrading via cvsup

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Saturday 12 July 2003 14:02, Douglas wrote:

> I couldn't compile any thing after upgrading 4.6.2 to 4.8 via cvsup
> I also updated ports via cvsup
> And nothing would compile, nothing, just error after error

> I think I will cd to /usr/ports after doing anything with cvsup or any
> install, just in case
> or am I looking in the wrong direction???

Some common problems, when upgrading from 4.2 to 4.8 (been there):
* cvsup is outof date. Solution: use pkg_add to install the binary version. 
You'll get protocol mismatch errors otherwise.

* many dependencies are obsolete, wrong version or what not. The first package 
you want to install is portupgrade. This is an excellent tutorial on how to 
get it up and running __before__ you do anything else:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

* There's one other package I needed to do binary, via portupgrade -P, in the 
XFree or KDE3 Family, but I can't remember which and this might already have 
been fixed. In any case: whenever something does not compile, try portupgrade 
-P.

HTH.
-- 
Melvyn
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