Ports and Packages: Updating problems

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:25 pm, Gerry Freymann wrote:
> I just upgraded from FreeBSD 4.9R to 4.11R (cvsup'd sources and
> ports, buildworld, buildkernel, etc).
>
> Then I went to work on upgrading my ports. Portupgrade and some
> manual intervention did a fairly decent job.
>
> I used the "ports" which compiled mostly everything (Xfree-4 went
> fine too) but it never compiles KDE so I fall-back to using
> "packages" for those.
>
> But I'm confused as to why the packages seem to be older versions
> than what's in the ports? A fair bit of the packages required for KDE
> spit out notices they were expecting version B of a dependency but I
> have version A (the latest)
>
> I can't update via ports:
>
> arts-1.3.2,1
> gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0
> kdemultimedia-mpeglib_artsplug-3.3.2
> koffice-1.3.5_1,1
>
> and if I try to install via package, I get the versions above, which
> are now considered "old" and I'm being told they need to be updated
> when I run pkg_version
>
> I get varying errors when trying to compile via ports, of which
> something about libjpeg seems to be common.
>
> Do I need to cvsup again and try the above 4 programs again? or do I
> need to capture the text where they bomb and submit to the ports'
> responsible person?
>
> Thanks...
> -gerry

Gerry, give portmanager a try.  It should straighten out the 
dependencies for you and rebuild everthing via ports.

This is all you need do:

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanger
make install clean
rehash
portmanager -u

-Mike