From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 0: 1:10 2003 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 E492537B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 00:01:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED4D43EA9 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 00:01:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18TdoJ-000JLF-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 08:01:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id DA91B1668 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 09:01:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id DF733F04 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 09:00:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id AA2E6225D9; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 09:00:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 09:00:55 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages Message-ID: <20030101080055.GH9744@raggedclown.net> References: <20021231154158.GA22986@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <3E126F2F.8030605@adam.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E126F2F.8030605@adam.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 03:01:43PM +1030, Brian Astill wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I've just spent a fun day upgrading ~180 ports that were about a year out > >of date, which will teach me not to be so lazy in future :-( Anyway, > >portupgrade coped with most of this mess admirably, except for > >(unsurprisingly) the KDE2 --> KDE3 upgrade. > > > > That upgrade is a doozie. Been there, done that! > rm -fr qt2 is (I think) the correct thing to do (someone else on the > list will correct me). > Then port kde3. > > qt2 and qt3 will NOT live comfortably together. So delete qt2 and all > the apps dependent on it (that includes kde2 and its apps). > The kde3 port will look for the version of qt it needs, fail to find it, > and fetch it for you. Ain't that nice? > > Do get confirmation of that rm command I listed, though. > # cd / # rm -rf * No problems anymore. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message