Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:04:26 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [asking again] did a bad thing to my ports? Message-ID: <200503132104.26749.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <423516E5.5030602@munat.com> References: <4234D485.309@munat.com> <4234D6D7.9060804@cis.strath.ac.uk> <423516E5.5030602@munat.com>
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On Sunday 13 March 2005 08:45 pm, Ben Munat wrote: > Chris Hodgins wrote: > > Ben Munat wrote: > >> This morning, after running cvsup and portsdb, portversion told me > >> I had a stale > >> dependency in linux-sun-jdk. This didn't surprise me, as I had > >> installed the jdk yesterday > >> (and what a pain that was). > >> > >> So, I did as it suggested and ran pkgdb -F.... it asked me some > >> questions... well, I'll > >> just paste the output below. The question/problem is that now > >> portversion says that I need > >> to upgrade 85 ports! When I checked a few days ago, I had nothing > >> to upgrade, so I have a > >> feeling I messed something up. Any help would be appreciated. > > > > You could always play it safe, backup all the good stuff on your > > system and just cvsup again. Then install portmanager and start it > > running and go to bed. If it updates everything so be it. At > > least you will feel a little more confident about your system after > > that. > > > > Chris > > Ok, well I ran portmanager -s and it comes up with 85 packages to > upgrade too. I guess it was just coincidence that I went from 0 to 85 > in a couple days. I've started portmanager -u... we'll see how long > it takes! > > thnx, > > Ben Ben, they upgraded gnome and bumped many portrevisions to keep portupgrade happy I guess. Its too bad because likely many of these ports don't require upgrading. All we can do is grin and bear it, hopefully it will be a long while before gnome is again upgraded. -Mike
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