From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 14 20:32:04 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0755351 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A876E256A for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9EKVuPZ089983; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:31:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) with ESMTP id r9EKVu7w089980; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:31:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:31:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Scott Ballantyne Subject: Re: Advice sought on Portmaster -Faf and deleted ports In-Reply-To: <20131014174833.58154.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> Message-ID: References: <20131013200236.7874.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <20131014174833.58154.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:31:57 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:32:05 -0000 On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote: >>> I'm following the recipe at the end of man portmaster for deleting and >>> reinstalling all my ports, which I have done many times in the >>> past. This time, I am getting errors on the portmaster -Faf step >>> involving deleted ports, and I'm not sure how to deal with this >>> easily. >> >> What errors, exactly? > > Well, for example: > > portmaster -Faf > it starts to fetch a bunch of files > it finds a port which has been deleted, such as > linux-base-fc4 > and it says, "linux-base-fc4" has been deleted. > terminating > terminating > terminating > etc. That's correct. linux_base-fc4 is long gone (years), replaced by linux_base-f10. portmaster sees no way to upgrade that port, so evidently it quits. If you have ports that far out of date, the upgrade process is going to be long. Ports where the system does not know the replacement will have to be handled manually. >>> So, I am seeking expert advice here. Is there a way to automate this >>> and keep myself out of trouble, or do I need to do a 'port-by-port' >>> upgrade of each port? >> >> It should "just work". Have you converted to pkgng? >> > > I dream of the day that the ports system will "just work". I don't use > binary packages, are you saying that pkgng will deal with this issue > automatically? No, the concern was that you might have already converted to pkgng but still used the old package tools.