On Monday 30 December 2002 09:03 pm, Roger Merritt wrote:
> At 02:56 AM 12/27/02, you wrote:
> >On Thursday 26 December 2002 03:35 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > > Once upon a time it was said that one of the cool things about
> > > Portupgrade, was that you could use it to upgrade itself.
> > > ("portupgrade -{|r|R} portupgrade")
> > >
> > > But this never worked for me - caused all sorts of weird Ruby and
> > > dependency problems, orphaned Ruby shim thingies, etc.
> > >
> > > So I got into the habit of completely removing Portupgrade and
> > > everything associated with it including all the Ruby stuff, and
> > > reinstalling them all, in order to upgrade. (it was the only way
> > > that worked for me)
> > >
> > > Have things improved in the meantime? Is there an easy way to
> > > upgrade Portupgrade without removing everything and
> > > re-installing? I currently have the 20020706 version installed.
> >
> >You version is so far back that the upgrade is hopeless. You have
> > things that no long exist as parts of portupgrade and your version
> > can't deal with that. It is easier if you delete the portupgrade,
> > ruby-*, pkg_tartup, and what ever is left and reinstall it.
> >
> >FWIW, it works flawlessly now. I just recently upgraded to the 1216
> >version by using "portupgrade -rpuf ruby".
>
> Just out of curiosity, wouldn't 'portupgrade -rR portupgrade' work as
> well?
Ruby was the base element that had changed and you only needed to build
ports that depended on it. There could have been ports others than
portupgrade that used ruby.
I don't see any dependancy on portupgrade and the "-r" would have been
meaningless and from experience "-R" wouldn't have followed chains
using ruby.
Kent
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
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