neon port won't upgrade

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu May 8 22:07:49 UTC 2008


In the last episode (May 08), Chad Perrin said:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Lars Kristiansen wrote:
> > Chad Perrin skrev:
> > >Let me know if I should take this to the ports mailing list instead of
> > >the questions mailing list.
> > >
> > >This is my problem:
> > >
> > >  # portupgrade neon-0.26.4
> > >  ** Port directory not found: www/neon2
> > >  ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
> > >        - www/neon2 (port directory error)
> > >
> > >Does anyone have any troubleshooting tips for how I should deal
> > >with this?  This is the first time I've had a port fail to upgrade
> > >because it suddenly seems to have ceased existing.
> > 
> > portupgrade -f -o www/neon26 neon
> > 
> > seemed to work for me
> 
> Isn't this the sort of information that should be in
> /usr/ports/UPDATING? In my case, there's nothing in that file that
> comes up when I search for the string "neon" (without quotes).

Do you update your entire ports tree, or just certain subdirs?  My copy
of /usr/ports/MOVED ( rev 1.1591 ) has the following:

www/neon|www/neon26|2008-05-05|Moved to be able to integrate www/neon26

which portupgrade should have used to determine the new location of
the port.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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