Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:33:10 -0500 From: Darren Crotchett <backdoc@crotchett.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portupgrade aftermath Message-ID: <200207260833.10965.backdoc@crotchett.com>
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Quick background: I'm trying to transition from complete newbie to newbie-admin. In other=20 words, I can handle most of the basics of getting a system up and going. = Now=20 I want to learn how properly admin a FreeBSD box. I'm running 4.6-RELEAS= E. =20 Due to the recent security issues involving php, apache and openssh, I=20 thought that I would try to upgrade all of my installed ports/packages. =20 Things went OK but, not great. I have a couple of questions. Here's how= I=20 did what I did: cvsup -g -L 2 /path/to/ports-supfile pkgdb -F portversion (to have a look at what might get upgraded) portupgrade -ra After running portupgrade, I was greeted with the following message: ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped /!:fa= iled) =09! databases/mysql323-server (mysql-server-3.23.49) (install error) =09! devel/ruby-fnmatch (ruby-fnmatch-1.1b_1) (port directory error) =09* sysutils/portupgrade (portupgrade-20020429) The first question I have is what to do about those messages? mysql-serv= er=20 3.23.51is the version I have in /usr/ports. I wonder why portupgrade had= =20 trouble installing? Should I try manually installing it? What command l= ine=20 options should I use with portupgrade for that? I don't know how important ruby-fnmatch is. But, I don't know of any spe= cific=20 reason why I need it. So, I'm not too worried about it. But, I don't ca= re=20 to have loose ends. So, I do want to deal with it properly. What should= I=20 do with it? Since security was my motivation to upgrade, now I want to verify that I = have=20 all of the security fixes available. I'm not sure how you can tell if yo= u=20 have all of the security patches compiled in. =20 Finally, this last part is more a comment than a question. After upgradi= ng,=20 phpBB and mailman quit working. I discovered that mysql was no longer se= t to=20 start on boot (which is why phpBB wouldn't work). And, mailman is back t= o=20 giving me UID/GID problems (I always have to edit my Makefile and recompi= le=20 it). I think I can take care of both of these problems. But, why would=20 portupgrade leave my services unusable? It seems like if it had problems= , it=20 would be smart enough to back out and give you a message. Any suggestions? Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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