Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

James oscartheduck at gmail.com
Sat Oct 27 10:14:59 PDT 2007


> > > Not anymore!  Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of
> > > those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's
> > > because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work.  It is
> > > not fun any more!  Always an issue, either a port conflicts with
> > > another port or it fails all together.  I have forgotten the last
> > > time I updated my ports without any issues.  Today scrollkeeper is
> > > conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory.
> > > Go figure.  Those were the days when it used to work.


What would you like to see from ports? I mean, in the great tradition of
BSD,
let's work out what the problem is and write a script.


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