Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:11:47 +0100 From: Armin Arh <armin@pubbox.net> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it safe to upgrade ruby18? Message-ID: <20061224031147.GF756@pubbox.net> In-Reply-To: <200612240221.kBO2LM12024747@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200612240221.kBO2LM12024747@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 08:21:22PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
> The portmanager program wants to upgrade ruby18. Is is safe to
> let it? I made the mistake of trying to do a "portupgrade ruby18" under
good question.
As ruby is crucial to the portmanager special care should be taken.
Good luck there are almost no dependencies for ruby itself:
pkg_info -r /var/db/pkg/ruby-1.8.5_5,1/
Dependency: ldconfig_compat-1.0_8
Simply do
cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18
make install
This may fail if ruby is already installed, but make will
let you know how to fix that.
###
This whole "portmanager" thing is lots of black magic, does
very impressing things. (Fixed my 3 year old mess, i never used portmanager)
But:
-> Like all magic it is subject to fail.
I have no problem about it, because most of the time i don't need it.
Ports do not require "portmanager" to work, it's just a tool to
keep the dependencies tidy (and a lot more: to switch from xfree to xorg etc.).
The underlying ports system behaves very traditional (since 1995?),
keeping enough book-information in /var/db/pkg to "know what's going on".
-> The good old tools (pkg_add, pkg_delete, pkg_info) never fail.
Armin
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