On Wed, 05 May 2010, 23:13 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 5/5/2010 6:58 PM, John Marshall wrote: > > Yesterday I updated ports on my notebook (8.0-RELEASE-p2), took a deep > > breath, used portmaster to upgrade xorg to 7.5 (portmaster -D xorg-7.4_4) > > - ran without a hitch. > > > > Then, I upgraded portmaster (portmaster -D portmaster) - also no > > problems. > > Both good news. :) Although generally you should update a new portmaster > version first before upgrading other stuff ...
I "always" upgrade portmaster first. This time the list of update candidates was several screens long: I knew upgrading xorg would clear most of that and didn't discover that portmaster was in the list until then. I'm really glad I didn't upgrade portmaster first this time :-) > > Then, I tried to upgrade jpeg... > > > So a couple of questions. What does: > make BEFOREPORTMK=bpm -f/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk -V PORTSDIR /build/ports > return? And do you have an actual /usr/ports directory on the box where > PORTSDIR is supposed to be /build/ports? If the answer to the first No, but (as shown in my OP) /usr/ports is a softlink to /build/ports. > Then send me the log. <http://www.riverwillow.net.au/~john/pm/pm225.txt> Thanks for looking at this. -- John Marshall
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