Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please

[Kent Stewart]

On Saturday 03 May 2003 02:20 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart at owt.com>
> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew at mykitchentable.net>; "Adam"
> <blueeskimo at gmx.net>; "FreeBSD Questions"
> <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please
>
> > On Saturday 03 May 2003 09:39 am, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Adam" <blueeskimo at gmx.net>
> > > To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 3:15 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 17:45, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > > >> I'm not sure what I've done but I'll describe my symptoms. 
> > > >> I'm running 4.8-RELEASE with a Gnome2 desktop and the
> > > >> dependent ports. The only additional ports I've installed are
> > > >> cvsup-without-gui, portupgrade,
> > >
> > > mplayer,
> > >
> > > >> evolution, galeon, and their dependencies.  Everything was
> > > >> installed by portupgrade except portupgrade itself. 
> > > >> Everything was running along fine until I decided to use
> > > >> portupgrade to upgrade my installed ports.
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried running 'pkgdb -F' as root? Does that help fix
> > > > the database corruption?
> > >
> > > Yes I have.  I do all my portupgrade tasks as root.  However the
> > > corruption remains.
> >
> > I remember a discussion about massive corruption. You might do an
> > archive search on "pkgdb -fu". It will force update or create the
> > database.
>
> I'll look for that.  Thanks!
>
> > When you ran portupgrade to do your upgrade, what options did you
> > use.
>
> I went "balls out" and did "portupgrade '*'".  :)  Probably part of
> my problem...

When I have done that, what I did was

portupgrade -ufa

I have found that -rR only upgrades what portversion -c thinks should be 
upgraded. I personally feel that if an important library has been 
updated, then the codes that use it should be too. You never know if a 
structure has been changed in a header file. Old builds would have used 
the old structures. To build all of the dependancies, I have found that 
I have to force (-f) and I have also started using (-u) to save some 
file space.


Kent

>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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