Installing Cacti from Ports

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As part of the "freebsd-update" process I did run a few portupgrade commands.  But I thought portupgrade only did whatever it does to installed ports.  Or are you saying it upgraded the xcb port which allowed Cacti to build to completion?

Also, off topic I know, but what is the proper way to reply to this?  Reply?  Reply to all?  Or reply just to the mailing list?
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From: Adam Vande More [amvandemore at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:03 PM
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Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Installing Cacti from Ports

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:31 PM, mailinglist <mailinglist at ucwv.edu<mailto:mailinglist at ucwv.edu>> wrote:
I hada VM running an older installation of FreeBSD 7.2.  I recently got back to it and tried to install Cacti from the ports collection.  I cvsup'd in an up-to-date ports collection, and did the usual "make, make install" for Cacti.  During the "make install" process a dependency failed to build.  I believe it was xcb-utils that failed to build because XCB was at version 1.2 and needed to be at 1.4.  I couldn't get the issue resolved no matter what I tried.  I ended up giving up.....later on I went through the "freebsd-update" process and upgraded to a newer version of 7.2.  After that Cacti and all dependencies built and installed successfully.  Was XCB upgraded when I did the freebsd-update process?  Or what?  I'm just trying to find out what happened.....  Thanks! _______________________________________________
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You might want to try a tool like portmaster or portupgrade to manage these dependency and package backup process.

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Adam Vande More