gnome_upgrade.sh - noclean mode?

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:19:07 -0400
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> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:17, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > > Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:44:26 -0400
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> > >=20
> > > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:39, Aniruddha Bohra wrote:
> > > > Hello
> > > > 	I tried installing Gnome-2.6 and it failed
> > > > due to gstreamer (I found the solution on this list),
> > > > but I do not want to go through the whole build process again.
> > > >=3D20
> > > > 	Is there a way that I can upgrade without having
> > > > to build everything again. BTW, I can start gnome and it
> > > > is the new version.
> > >=20
> > > Edit the script, and remove the -f from the main upgrade step.
> >=20
> > Is this really safe? Won't it possibly result in some ports not being
> > re-installed? I grepped through the log and added excludes (-x) for the
> > ports that had already been installed, but just removing the -f would
> > certainly be easier.
> 
> Since I bumped PORTREVISION on all ports that depended on glib20, you
> should be okay.  Plus, portupgrade runs in a greedy way such that it
> will update the most possible ports before dying due to failure.=20
> Removing the -f should be safe.  The important thing is making sure the
> final reinstall stage works correctly.  If not, you'll be missing
> certain ports, and things like the keyboard may not work right anymore.
> 

Thanks, Joe. You just saved me some time updating my last system from 2.4
to 2.6!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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