Major version changes using portupgrade?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 04/12/2011 20:07, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> On 2011/12/04, at 14:13, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
>> >   4) Now for the updating bit.  I'm going to use portmaster's '-o'
>> >      functionality to swap out the postgresql versions.  (portupgrade
>> >      has very similar functionality if you prefer that.) postgresql
>> >      is trickier than most, because there have to be both -server and
>> >      -client ports to deal with.  I also have postgresql-contrib-9.0.5
>> >      installed, which isn't critical but needs similar treatment.
>> >      Everything depends on the -client port, so we start with that:
>> > 
>> >        # portmaster -o databases/postgresql91-client \
>> > 	      postgresql-client-9.0.5
>> > 	# portmaster -o databases/postgresql91-server \
>> >              postgresql-server-9.0.5_1
>> > 	# portmaster -o databases/postgresql91-contrib \
>> > 	      postgresql-contrib-9.0.5

> This is the problem bit.  The -o doesn't work with the ones I'm
> dealing with because of conflicts between 8.4 and 9.1.  9.1 *won't
> even build*.  If you can find a way to get around that, then you can
> make life even easier for yourself by doing a recursive build of all
> of the things that depend on the client.  It's getting around the
> conflict that I'm trying to figure out... the rest is handled.

Not a problem with portmaster(1) -- it automatically adds
DISABLE_CONFLICTS to the make environment if you're using the '-o' flag.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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