Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 14:41:34 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>, "Adam" <blueeskimo@gmx.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please Message-ID: <200305031441.34366.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <001301c311b9$cd7143c0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> References: <031301c310f4$1c456380$6e2a6ba5@tagalong> <200305031020.19808.kstewart@owt.com> <001301c311b9$cd7143c0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy>
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On Saturday 03 May 2003 02:20 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> > To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>; "Adam" > <blueeskimo@gmx.net>; "FreeBSD Questions" > <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 10:20 AM > Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please > > > On Saturday 03 May 2003 09:39 am, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Adam" <blueeskimo@gmx.net> > > > To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > > Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 3:15 AM > > > Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 17:45, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > >> I'm not sure what I've done but I'll describe my symptoms. > > > >> I'm running 4.8-RELEASE with a Gnome2 desktop and the > > > >> dependent ports. The only additional ports I've installed are > > > >> cvsup-without-gui, portupgrade, > > > > > > mplayer, > > > > > > >> evolution, galeon, and their dependencies. Everything was > > > >> installed by portupgrade except portupgrade itself. > > > >> Everything was running along fine until I decided to use > > > >> portupgrade to upgrade my installed ports. > > > > > > > > Have you tried running 'pkgdb -F' as root? Does that help fix > > > > the database corruption? > > > > > > Yes I have. I do all my portupgrade tasks as root. However the > > > corruption remains. > > > > I remember a discussion about massive corruption. You might do an > > archive search on "pkgdb -fu". It will force update or create the > > database. > > I'll look for that. Thanks! > > > When you ran portupgrade to do your upgrade, what options did you > > use. > > I went "balls out" and did "portupgrade '*'". :) Probably part of > my problem... When I have done that, what I did was portupgrade -ufa I have found that -rR only upgrades what portversion -c thinks should be upgraded. I personally feel that if an important library has been updated, then the codes that use it should be too. You never know if a structure has been changed in a header file. Old builds would have used the old structures. To build all of the dependancies, I have found that I have to force (-f) and I have also started using (-u) to save some file space. Kent > > Thanks, > > Drew -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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