Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:09:46 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gimp-devel Message-ID: <20031007230946.GM96543@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <200310072258.h97MwAL3008648@rosebud.alerce.com> References: <200310072258.h97MwAL3008648@rosebud.alerce.com>
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>> (10.07.2003 @ 1858 PST): George Hartzell said, in 1.1K: << > I just cvs updated my /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-devel directory and > tried to do a portupgrade. It failed, saying that I already had it > installed. I tried a portupgrade -f ...., which failed similarly. > > I did a manual make deinstall and am still stuck. > > Now when I try a make install it seems to build and install everything > completely, but when it gets around to trying to register the package, > it seems to recursively spawn make processes until the machine grinds > to a halt (over 261). > > Do I need to cvs update the entire ports/gnome tree and recompile > everything (a two day proposition?) > > The machine is running: > > FreeBSD rosebud.alerce.com 4.8-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p7 #15: Mon Sep 29 20:48:22 PDT 2003 root@rosebud.alerce.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROSEBUD i386 > > And the ports tree represents a consistent cvs update except for this > one sneaky maneuver. >> end of "gimp-devel" from George Hartzell << Keeping your ports tree up-to-date isn't terribly useful unless you keep the installed ports up-to-date too. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger vectors.cx >> adam@vectors.cx >> http://www.vectors.cx magnesium.net << adamw@magnesium.net << http://www.magnesium.net/~adamw FreeBSD >> adamw@FreeBSD.org >> http://people.freebsd.org/~adamw #vim:set ts=8: 8-char tabs prevent tooth decay.
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