From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 04:01:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2CFF5DF9 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 04:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.44.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C7A1237C for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 04:01:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.73]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id s4G41Ios047983; Thu, 15 May 2014 22:01:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <53758D8E.1030007@dreamchaser.org> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 22:01:18 -0600 From: Gary Aitken Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130730 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster -af and databases/db41 References: <53752562.8010205@dreamchaser.org> <53753227.3000907@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <53753227.3000907@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]); Thu, 15 May 2014 22:01:18 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 04:01:23 -0000 > If you have an earlier version of db41 installed, then portmaster -af > will try and upgrade it to a later version of the db41 port, with the > observed warning about the port being deprecated. > > You need to tell portmaster to replace db41 with db5 -- > > portmaster -o db5 db41 Thanks, that part worked great. (other than it needed to be "portmaster -o databases/db5 db41") > and then force reinstall everything that used to depend on db41 but that > now depends on db5 --- > > portmaster -fr db5 > > before proceeding with trying to update everything else. But now I'm seeing something weird. The portmaster -fr db5 seems to be in an infinite loop, repeatedly installing pkg.1.2.7_2 The following is showing up repeatedly in the stdout stream: ===> scripts/sbin (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 555 pkg2ng /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg/work/stage/u sr/local/sbin/pkg2ng ====> Compressing man pages (compress-man) ===>>> Creating a backup package for old version pkg-1.2.7_2 Creating package for pkg-1.2.7_2 Checking on the dates of the installed packages: ~$ diff info_pkg.txt_1 info_pkg.txt_2 4c4 < Installed on : Thu May 15 21:33:42 MDT 2014 --- > Installed on : Thu May 15 21:38:16 MDT 2014 ~$ diff info_gettext.txt_1 info_gettext.txt_2 4c4 < Installed on : Thu May 15 21:35:55 MDT 2014 --- > Installed on : Thu May 15 21:54:55 MDT 2014 Checking on the running processes: $ ps ax | grep portmaster 14754 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster gobject-introspec 34314 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster libiconv-1.14_3 51555 v1 I+ 0:00.02 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -fr db5 61302 v1 I+ 0:00.03 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -o editors/openof 61358 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster atk-2.8.0 83679 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster gettext-0.18.3.1_ 35987 v4 S+ 0:00.00 grep portmaster $ ps ax | grep portmaster 14754 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster gobject-introspec 43500 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster glib-2.36.3_2 43550 v1 S+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster libiconv-1.14_3 51555 v1 I+ 0:00.02 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -fr db5 61302 v1 I+ 0:00.03 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -o editors/openof 61358 v1 I+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster atk-2.8.0 45220 v4 S+ 0:00.00 grep portmaster hints? Thanks, Gary