7.2 to 8.0 upgrade issues

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Tue May 18 17:47:34 UTC 2010


># portupgrade -af --batch --yes
>after 17 hours (mostly during the night..), it finished with
>--->  ** Upgrade tasks 425: 199 done, 1 ignored, 3 skipped and 1 failed
>(no error messages here..)
>Unfortunately, I didn't log the screen output to a file ..
>- how can I find out what port failed and which where skipped and ignored?

Just run it again, and it'll retry the ones that didn't complete

>- is it normal this didn't recompile all 425 ports?
>- to rebuild the failed port: is # portupgrade -fr <failed-port>  OK?

I'm not sure it's OK, but it's unfortunately pretty typical.

R's,
John




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