Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:56:49 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnome update Message-ID: <453D9D11.2070502@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <453D7CF8.2080404@micom.mng.net> References: <453C95A0.8040704@micom.mng.net> <453D0770.4000308@FreeBSD.org> <453D7CF8.2080404@micom.mng.net>
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Ganbold wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> Ganbold wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to update gnome to 2.16 using portmaster for more than 3
>>> days :(
>>
>> I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble. Are you sure you're
>> using the latest version of portmaster (1.9)?
>
> Yes.
Ok, good.
>>> 1. Every time after some error when I try to run portmaster -r
>>> pkg-config\*
>>> it starts from the beginning. Maybe there is some option to skip
>>> updated ports. How to tell portmaster to skip updated ports?
>>
>> By definition the -r flag means "update the ports that depend on this
>> port no matter what." Jeremy's suggestion of using the -i flag is a
>> good one though. You will only have to enter your choices (to build a
>> port or not) only one time, during the 'make config' stage.
>
> ok, but how do I know whether particular port was updated or not, if I
> didn't check before the port version?
If you're not sure, go ahead and let portmaster update it. Due to the
change from X11BASE to LOCALBASE this is a particularly important
upgrade.
>>> 3. While portmaster running, I manually updated libtheora port. When
>>> portmaster reaches libtheora, it stops with error.
>>
>> It's not really a good idea to do that, but it's impossible to advise
>> you without knowing what the error was.
>
> When you make install certain port it complains to deinstall and
> reinstall again. So this is the error I forgot to mention.
Well, you're probably better off in that situation to just let
portmaster handle the update.
hth,
Doug
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