Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 16:53:25 -0400 From: "William F. Dudley Jr." <wfdudley@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster -af fails due to dead port - HELP Message-ID: <5596F645.6030101@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150703195828.GA6560@neutralgood.org> References: <CAFsnNZK120bMrk3qUX2AHK_y%2BZtf_xYC8feqYrHChharh7rv=Q@mail.gmail.com> <20150702195510.GA2863@oslo.ath.cx> <CAFsnNZJLKbPeOyi6M--DZyxW9oqKoMj3YECdmn0vJAzRnHSB0w@mail.gmail.com> <CAFsnNZL4ak3j7RhCBBiJ5JBh6jT=Jr%2BjO5xrdPqUQNe3Ah_5BQ@mail.gmail.com> <20150703023514.GA4554@neutralgood.org> <5595FC4A.6020402@gmail.com> <86bnft1e4h.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <20150703195828.GA6560@neutralgood.org>
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Thanks to everybody for their help. I am now much further along in my upgrade, which was complicated by the fact that this is a running server, and I didn't want to interrupt the users more than a little bit, so "delete all the ports, install all the packages" was less than ideal for me. (And this is just barely above "hobby level" stuff, so I don't have the luxury of building up a new machine and cutting over to it after it's ready. The upgrade has to be done in place.) I have found that I can replace the old ports with packages a little bit at a time, thus minimizing the outages. The various bits of help with commands has been invaluable to me, and though I might have eventually figured this all out on my own, your help has greatly sped the process. I may sound like I'm some kind of noob, but in reality I've been running FreeBSD since very early on (pre-2000), but always as a "hobby", since being sysadmin wasn't my day job. So I've upgraded FreeBSD over many, many versions. And historically, upgrading the ports was always a giant pain in the neck. Now, it seems, the binary package management is finally working, and once I get all these legacy port builds out of the way, upgrades should be much simpler in the future. Again, thanks to all who responded. Bill Dudley On 07/03/2015 03:58 PM, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: >> In the future, you might consider working with the people from whom you >> expect help rather than throwing a fit and disparaging their hard work. > Whoah there. > > Everybody gets frustrated sometimes. Me, I've got a new IPv6 setup that > I'm having a hard time with. But the correct response is for the people > around the frustrated person to understand the frustration and just let > it go -- without comment. > > Let's hope our frustrated user goes the binary package route and has an > easy time of it. >
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