From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 03:01:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB13A16A4CE for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 03:01:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532F543D54 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 03:01:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E46251F7B; Sun, 1 May 2005 20:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 20:01:52 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Jeays Message-ID: <20050502030152.GA30662@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1114807030.3078.12.camel@chaucer> <20050429214445.GB57046@xor.obsecurity.org> <1115002625.89282.3.camel@chaucer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6TrnltStXW4iwmi0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1115002625.89282.3.camel@chaucer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Ports update gone badly wrong X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 03:01:54 -0000 --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:57:05PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:44, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: > > > I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation. I have been > > > running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to csvup the ports file= s, > > > using the following section in ports-supfile. Note I didn't change t= he > > > release tag! I updated a few of the ports, including Evolution and > > > Firefox, and had trouble with missing libraries, such as libgthread .. > > > 400 having been rename to ..600.. > > >=20 > > > The machine now feels less stable than an old version of Windows.=20 > > > Things like Tk.pm and other Perl modules no longer work, and won't > > > reinstall. I had to copy over the missing libraries for Evolution and > > > Firefox from another machine. > > >=20 > > > Any advice for recovery, other than a re-installation and fresh start? > > > What should I do next time? > >=20 > > Use portupgrade to update your ports. What you did wrong was updated > > a port that provides a library without updating the ports that depend > > on that library. > >=20 > > Kris >=20 > Thanks for the varying replies. I tried running portupgrade -arR, and > it seems to have worked quite well - almost all the ports are now up to > date, and the system seems to work properly. It took over 24 hours, > partly because some ports stop and ask questions, and the process needs > occasional attention. You can choose the default settings by setting the BATCH environment variable. Kris --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCdZgfWry0BWjoQKURAk4RAKDY/x9M66hT1hMsckHyZZjWEMArHQCbBLhC 9/xSbExs9ujqd3uRcr1U2no= =BT1M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0--