Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:46:33 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> Subject: Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff Message-ID: <200705171446.33965.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0705171135570.25365@libra.sfsu.edu> References: <464B114C.5080703@net4.in> <44irarz7fs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0705171135570.25365@libra.sfsu.edu>
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On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:37:15 pm KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Please don't top-post. > > > > KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> writes: > >> so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the > >> portupgrade comamnd, just verifying > > > > Yes. Otherwise, you may end up with some of the ports that depend on > > pango being unable to use the new version. > > > > Make sure you look through the UPDATING file to see if there are any > > other issues you need to take special action for at the same time. > > this guy seems to disagree > > jnielsendotnet:Try what I asked in my first reply (deleting and > reinstalling pango manually), and see if you can get any error messages > from xfce. > > If portupgrade -f is failing portupgrade -fr isn't likely to succeed > either. Portupgrade with the -r option is very useful, and you will probably want to use it. My point was that _before_ you try that you should figure out why portupgrade is failing to upgrade pango, and/or upgrade it manually. Otherwise it will just keep failing. JN
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