Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:19:48 -0500 From: Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> To: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major Error Upgrading to GNOME 2.12 Message-ID: <4371B124.6010805@gti.net> In-Reply-To: <4370BA33.6080400@ywave.com> References: <4370468B.9060407@gti.net> <4370BA33.6080400@ywave.com>
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Micah wrote: > Bob Perry wrote: > >> This past weekend, I CVSup'd the ports tree and prepared to run >> portupgrade. I noticed a large number of GNOME ports in my output >> from pkg_version and, found that I would need to run the GNOME >> Project 's upgrade script to upgrade to 2.12. >> >> I use a dial-up modem had been timed out on several occasions.during >> the process This happened about three times during the night and I >> had to restart the upgrade each time. Note that I failed to use the >> restart flag recommended during the first restart. I finally ended >> up with a "succesful upgrade..." message even though I now have only >> 188 ports after beginning with 297. Amongst the missing is gnome >> 2.12 itself. >> >> I'm hoping there is some way to get things back to normal and rerun >> the upgrade without re-installing the missing ports. BTW, I did back >> up /var/db/pkg. >> >> Any advice would be appreciated. I run 5.4 -RELEASE #0. I'm running >> this message from a second machine but should be able to supply the >> logs if needed. >> >> Thanks, >> Bob Perry >> > > gnome_upgrade_lst.xxxx in your tmp folder should contain a list of all > the software that the script was going to update. Compare that list > with the output from pkg_version/portversion to see what needs > reinstalling. Reinstall it via whatever method you like (portinstall, > cd /user/port/xxx/xxx && make install). I am in a similar situation > but I had the output from portversion from before the upgrade to rely > on (and wrote a script that made a list of the differences). > > HTH, > Micah > > I was able to compare the list of files the script was going to update to output from pkg_version to get an idea of what was missing. I started with gnome2 (cd /user/port/x11/gnome2 && make install) and now have about a dozen ports left to install. (Think I'll try portmanager at a later date when I feel more comfortable with it.) I certainly want to thank you all for your help. Can't wait 'til next upgrade. Thanks, Bob Perry
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