Ports update gone badly wrong

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:57:05PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:44, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote:
> > > I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation.  I have been
> > > running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to csvup the ports files,
> > > using the following section in ports-supfile.  Note I didn't change the
> > > release tag!  I updated a few of the ports, including Evolution and
> > > Firefox, and had trouble with missing libraries, such as libgthread ..
> > > 400 having been rename to ..600..
> > > 
> > > The machine now feels less stable than an old version of Windows. 
> > > Things like Tk.pm and other Perl modules no longer work, and won't
> > > reinstall.  I had to copy over the missing libraries for Evolution and
> > > Firefox from another machine.
> > > 
> > > Any advice for recovery, other than a re-installation and fresh start?
> > > What should I do next time?
> > 
> > Use portupgrade to update your ports.  What you did wrong was updated
> > a port that provides a library without updating the ports that depend
> > on that library.
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> Thanks for the varying replies.  I tried running portupgrade -arR, and
> it seems to have worked quite well - almost all the ports are now up to
> date, and the system seems to work properly.  It took over 24 hours,
> partly because some ports stop and ask questions, and the process needs
> occasional attention.

You can choose the default settings by setting the BATCH environment
variable.

Kris
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