upgrading all ports

[Denny White]

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On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> On 6/27/05, Denny White <dennyboy at cableone.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote:
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>>>> This couldn't have come at a better time for me.
>>>> I really boned things up about 40 hours ago. I was
>>>> getting ready to leave and because I'd been doing
>>>> some learning/experimenting with portupgrade on
>>>> some held ports, I hit the wrong switch. I think
>>>> it was portupgrade -arRF & now, about 40 hours
>>>> later, shortly after returning home, we're still
>>>> going, going, going....... Things are really in
>>>> a mess & I've read the recent posts on this thread
>>>> & can attest, sitting here for several hours, that
>>>> "visits some ports many times" is an understatement.
>>>> It's becoming rediculous & I'm wondering if, at
>>>> some point, when clean is going after something
>>>> else was just upgraded, if I can break out & go
>>>> back with a simple portupgrade -arR & not screw
>>>> things up to badly. Any help/feedback on this will
>>>> be GREATLY appreciated. :)
>>>> Denny White
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>>> You shouldn't have any problems if you do that but kill it at the
>>> beginning of the next build, not when it's cleaning.
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>> Thanks so much for the personal speedy reply. I've worked
>> for a month getting this system to about where I want it,
>> & I hate to see it all go down the tubes. Sure glad you
>> straightened me out on when to break out, too. I see you
>> didn't put in a cc to freebsd-questions, so I guess I
>> won't either. After breaking out of the loop, what's the
>> best thing to do at that point? The only way I could come
>> up with to try to start is:
>> cvsup ports-supfile
>> portsdb -Uu
>> portversion -l "<"
>> portupgrade -arR (no F this time)
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> Just restart portupgrade without the F flag, it will pick-up where it left off.
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>> If I can get things back right, I'll just learn to live
>> with the "held" ports. I never remember telling it to
>> hold anything, & it's probably pretty apparent I don't
>> understand as much as I should about portupgrade. I
>> learned what I know from Dru Lavigne's blogs at Oreilly,
>> & until I fat-fingered the F without thinking, it was
>> working okay, except for the held ports. Thanks again
>> for your help.
>> Denny White
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> I'm not sure what you mean by held ports?
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Held ports are listed in an array in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.
Why I have any there beats me. I don't know enough about it yet to
be able to give an answer. There are times when portupgrade will
ask me questions about extra features in some port, but that's the
only interaction I remember having with the program while it was
running, as far as supplying answers to it. I never remember telling
it to "hold" anything. Wish someone could help me get this through
my thick noggin. :) I've been doing a lot of reading on it, & I see
where a lot of folks think you're better off deinstalling ports &
starting from scratch. Others prefer portsmanager, I think it's called. 
The reason I started using ports in the 1st place was to learn how to
add extra features to progs that aren't installed by default, as in
packages. Since I definitely ain't that sharp, I may start using pkgs
more & ports less. I'd rather have a smooth working install than the
power to wipe out my system & have to reinstall, at least until I
ever get up to speed on things. Thank you very much for the help.
Denny White


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