From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 22:11:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B46106566B for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 22:11:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@seibercom.net) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E738FC0C for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 22:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so729824yxl.13 for ; Wed, 04 May 2011 15:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.138.234 with SMTP id a70mr2187604yhj.246.1304547070135; Wed, 04 May 2011 15:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (twdp-174-109-142-001.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.142.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s21sm724085yhn.93.2011.05.04.15.11.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 04 May 2011 15:11:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (zeus [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3QPtqb3kqSz2CG5X for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 18:11:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 18:11:06 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20110504181106.4ea5b8e7@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <4DC1CA49.8060801@onetel.com> References: <20110504142626.539c2b6f@scorpio> <4DC1CA49.8060801@onetel.com> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEUAAABYRlwJCw4FAgAIBwKprDkBAQFQLR0BAgCir7VRttp8AAACAUlEQVQ4jZWUTYvbMBCGTVl8V2hX6Gg5G5FbWQdBj0lEfE7BhN4cyzi5Wt1E5L70roWy6N92xok/skkP+5IYrMcz78xIduDWpNM3vFzuA/jX5EY1AI6KHFwW/CzFuQAwqUBbV12p+CzIh6Awq7sg33pn5D64SQXAexffeuQlA/L35RrkaB551OjGfP/cAO8mCNaDcgvfky5ijoD0pAXlCQCnljiAjsJD9Ax05Ko5sZxbnLQcmM+dZg5IjREfZrWIHK0JuwU68pAGwHvfRxBundRzTxxz3r9dNUikPsEihjz2Dc4kjp1hKsJGuot4EDxaxzMoC7XqhxhOSfZrTS6gSX1JVdjp+o1PvWfekXgw3WL0g70nDEwA0H0HQsEZc8sTmFMTkWUfYWC/vdR1zQy3xLQgLwzu90QnlnFLjeiGWBjwhb4Sa42IqOg2qqS4O1/zhKokFUb1Q8Rj4Eb69WVflXEehJ35DgChVTE5n50eaGyMLOfH8AOodoSM4PVYAQgQdBulOa+knklYks3vAuQ+uX492lTl+A+e8qBV2AKoXalVKFfyuUp0pUp1ARaUHh82lv9MN+Ig7CZtgE6FNYvjlywT2VP2dMgOG46gTIWcqdfvuwyXNz0oMJNd/N5lh1YNiJt19ADTUo3VuFSNeQwVqRSrGjSCp53fk2g+Mvfk/gfoPxHeUS8MH9vRAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: A possibly odd upgrade question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 22:11:11 -0000 On Wed, 04 May 2011 22:51:05 +0100 Chris Whitehouse articulated: > I second Jerry, portmanager is indeed a very effective tool, it's > simple and thorough and probably has as good a chance of fixing ports > issues as anything. Or used to, I've been trying out tinderbox so > haven't used it for a year or so. > > If you do use portmanager there are a few tricks you can do to make > it effectively unattended. > > However, doesn't -u -f mean rebuild all dependencies of all ports? In > which case wouldn't it be just as effective and cleaner for the OP to > nuke the lot and rebuild, particularly in view of the retasked > purpose. Yes, from the man pages it states it will rebuild all packages and their dependencies. I simply include the "l" so he would have a log file available if something did go wrong. In any case, I thought it might save him some trouble rebuilding his system. There are some ports; however, that will not build correctly unless the program is first removed from the system. Obviously not a friendly concept; however, a reality. The OP would have to remove them first I suppose before doing a force rebuild. Maybe just doing a "pkg_delete -adv" would be a better idea. -- Jerry ✌ FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or reported as Spam. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done.