From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 01:49:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA1116A420 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:49:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF75F43D4C for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:48:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so987241wra for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:48:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=l2QKhNaefTHkE65YMGJBn+zh8apQs8465hZk+ZGVnIeJxvqkPE4PtVpJRAf+WfZDgWFBs5fXdNSspkEiqyFehrQl6vxMGktckwdpZXUdBKbZxR2qdUIl93UKR1t84j0xRRH7PbOwmF78ucZIMchFciO4MGDMlVudwqog6sueXCA= Received: by 10.54.82.11 with SMTP id f11mr107290wrb; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.113.12 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:48:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0602271748j4ece4502w@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:48:59 +0000 From: Chris To: "Jeremy Messenger" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <440377FF.4020502@kelleycows.com> <20060227225357.GA87738@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Christopher Kelley , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: libtool note in UPDATING X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:49:00 -0000 On 28/02/06, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:53:57 -0600, Kris Kennaway > wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:06:55PM -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: > >> Am I reading the entry for libtool in UPDATING correctly? It seems to > >> me to basically say "There's no way to tell you how to successfully > >> update your ports with the new libtool, hope you really understand how > >> all the ports interact with each other, good night and good luck." > >> > >> Now, I *DO* sort of understand the need for this change from reading > the > >> entry, and I'm not arguing the fact that the change needed to be made. > I > >> just don't know where to go from here because now I'm afraid to update > >> any of my ports since I'm not sure I would understand the output of th= e > >> -n flag enough to figure out how to update my ports. > >> > >> Is there a more straightforward explanation of how to upgrade ports > with > >> the new libtool? > > > > Basically, portupgrade -a should be OK (but watch out for the perl > > upgrade as well, i.e. read that entry too). If you run into problems > > let us know; I'd like to refine that entry with a working prescription > > before the release. > > I doubt the 'portupgrade -a' will working on any ports that depend on > glib12, gtk12 and etc. I would go with -af or -afr to force rebuild all > apps if you want to use portupgrade instead remove ports and reinstall > stuff as suggested in the UPDATING. > > Cheers, > Mezz > > > Kris > > > -- > mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD GNOME Team > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ I am guilty of not reading UPDATING on this but I used -a and -i on first few machines and have so far not seen any problems as a result. Chris