First cvsup in sometime, and now I'm hosed

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Sun Oct 24 11:10:30 PDT 2004


On Sunday 24 October 2004 12:39 pm, John Adams wrote:
> Hi, folks,
>
>  I ran a cvsup against my supfile, then a portupgrade -a, and now I'm
> hosed. For starts, ruby is complaining about an insecure version of
> OpenSSL, and will not install, leaving me without, well, portupgrade.
>
>  What have I done to myself, and how do I recover? Is this, by Hobson's
> choice, a good time to upgrade from 4.9? What should I provide to help
> tell what's going on with my box?
>
> All the best,
>
>  John A

You MUST read /usr/ports/UPDATING after cvsup'ing the ports tree.
AND, /usr/src/UPDATING after a cvsup'ing of your source tree.

Those 2 files hold the keys to your success.


-- 
Best regards,
Chris

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