Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:50:48 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely Message-ID: <20091129005048.GA85331@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <p0624081fc7364d2706fe@[10.20.30.158]> References: <p0624081fc7364d2706fe@[10.20.30.158]>
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 07:47:03PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > > Greetings again. I used freebsd-update to upgrade a system from 7.1 > to 7.2. The main upgrade went fine, but upgrading the ports had huge > problems. It could not find most (but not all) of the packages to > upgrade. A typical part of the failure looks like: > > ---> Checking for the latest package of 'lang/python25' ---> [snip] You don't mention what command you are using to upgrade your ports/packages. You do realise that you don't have to upgrade your ports if you go from 7.1 to 7.2. You can do but don't have to. You should upgrade python25 to python26. See /usr/ports/UPDATING dated 20090608 for instructions on how to do so. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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