Gnome 2.16 upgrade failed (yeah, I read /usr/src/UPDATING)

[Vasil Dimov]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:46:00PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:43:32 -0400
> > From: "Michael Johnson" <ahze at ahze.net>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> > 
> > On 10/17/06, Clint Olsen <clint at 0lsen.net> wrote:
> > > I ran the exact commands specified in the UPDATING file, and I eventually
> > > get:
> > >
> > > ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
> > >         ! devel/py-gobject (py24-gobject-2.10.1)        (new compiler error)
> > >         ! graphics/py-cairo (py24-cairo-1.0.2_1)        (new compiler error)
> > >         ! devel/py-orbit (py24-orbit-2.14.1)    (new compiler error)
> > >         ! textproc/gnome-doc-utils (gnome-doc-utils-0.6.1)      (new compiler error)
> > >         * misc/gnome-user-docs (gnomeuserdocs2-2.14.2)
> > >         ! multimedia/mplayer (mplayer-0.99.8_3) (install error)
> > >         ! www/mozilla (mozilla-1.7.13,2)        (bad C++ code)
> > >         ! devel/libglade2 (libglade2-2.6.0)     (new compiler error)
> > >         ...
> > >
> > > Amongst a number of other skipped port messages...
> > 
> > Could you send us the errors that caused the ports to fail?
> > we can't help you with just this little info.
> 
> You are probably building with inconsistent header files.
> 
> I have had similar failures on every upgrade. With one exception I fixed
> the problem by running 'pkgdb -Ff' again and using pkg_delete to delete
> the older port for ports with multiple versions installed. Don't use
> pkgdb delete them! Then re-build the current port.
> 
> portupgrade(1) should prevent multiple installs, so I don't understand
> why it is happening. I can only say that it is.

It is not portupgrade(1) which should prevent multiple installs but
rather the check-already-installed target in bsd.port.mk, and it has a
bug, see ports/103606.

-- 
Vasil Dimov
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