Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:05:31 +0100 From: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> To: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Strange issues while upgrading ports Message-ID: <CA%2Bt49PJPgZJvUY7DCRgwiwU%2BcbodyFpS51wUTYL2vSLn=25juw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ECF9E78.6000602@gmail.com> References: <4ECF6A90.9020906@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111251410550.4035@yokozuna.lan> <CA%2Bt49PJAD81MU5Rq=GCOdnpzsqm0WOB7Az2OJ%2BmGvLT_00abPA@mail.gmail.com> <4ECF9E78.6000602@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/25/2011 03:44 PM, Daniel Nebdal wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Marco Beishuizen<mbeis@xs4all.nl> =A0wr= ote: >>> >>> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, the wise Kaya Saman wrote: >>> >>>> Then ran portupgrade -a >>>> >>>> for some weird reason the packages listed below didn't get upgraded; >>>> upon >>>> the error output 'portupgrade' was trying to replace the port with the >>>> same >>>> version: eg. apache-2.2.13 error came up with the fact that >>>> apache-2.2.13 >>>> was to be installed again but was already installed so I needed to run= : >>>> make >>>> deinstall; make install; make clean in order to re-install >>>> apache22...... >>> >>> Did you csup your portstree first? >>> >> He used portsnap, which does the same thing. >> By the way: "portsnap fetch extract update" is pointless: "extract" >> gives you a clean copy of the last fetched version, and =A0"update" >> extracts only what has changed since the last extract or update. Use >> "portsnap fetch extract" once, then "portsnap fetch update" from then >> on. (Or replace "fetch" with "cron" if you're doing this automatically >> - it adds a random delay to not overload the servers at popular times >> of the day.) >> > Thanks for the tip! > > It's my first time updating/upgrading a FreeBSD system so any 'experience= d' > advice is always valid and welcome :-) > Ah, right. :) The nice thing with "update" is that it's much faster than "extract" - as I'm sure you'll notice. --=20 Daniel Nebdal
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