More info on last post ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 10/25/14 08:34, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Friday 24 Oct 2014 23:51:02 William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> i.e. nspluginwrapper seems to be locked in on linux-f10, rather
>> than  linux-c6 .... Since linux-c6 is supposed to be supplanting
>> linux-f10, this might be a bug .... TIA for any help ....
> The problem is that linux-c6 is not yet the default. Packages in the
> repository which depend on linux are still being built against linux-
> f10 - there's no mechanism for the repository to provide 2 different
> builds of the same package.
>
> As a workaround until c6 becomes the default you could lock your
> version of nspluginwrapper using the command "pkg lock
> nspluginwrapper". This will prevent "pkg upgrade" from replacing it
> with the f10 version.
>
> The downside of the workaround is that if a newer version of
> nspluginwrapper is available in the repository "pkg upgrade" will work
> through the list of packages to upgrade until it reaches
> nspluginwrapper and then fail with a message saying that
> nspluginwrapper is locked. At this stage you should use portmaster to
> rebuild nspluginwrapper and then run "pkg upgrade" again.
>
> If some c6 dependencies are still in need of upgrading after the first
> "pkg upgrade" run fails then portmaster will rebuild them so you might
> wish to save some time by using pkg to upgrade them before running
> portmaster. The command below should upgrade your out of date c6
> packages.
>
> pkg info -x 'linux.*c6' | xargs pkg rquery %n | xargs pkg upgrade
>
> This command creates a list of all your linux c6 packages, filters it
> through pkg rquery to get a list of only those packages which are
> available from the repository and then passes it through to pkg
> upgrade.
>
> --
> Mike Clarke
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*Booooyah* .... The 'pkg lock' worked like a champ .... Thx :-) ....


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