On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: | At the risk of being accused of a complainer.. | I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have | left me without a useable X system. | Guess it is back to the CD's. | Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release compilable | ports..especially for the big mothers like X/KDE.
This was just much-discussed in STABLE. I've had a similar experience to yours, though many people gave ways to make it work. What *I* do is is just "mass upgrade" OR none-- I do the kernel/world thing for my base system, save my current ports with pkg_info -aI, pkg_delete '*', wipe out /usr/local, then go over the packages I saved and remove the version numbers, and do (on a copy of hte file where I saved them, delete any that i must build from ports (eg, local patches) 1,$s/^/pkg_add -r/ 1,$s/[0-9].*$// Check for sanity, and then script source the file . . . then check the script file and build from ports any that failed, take any special actions, and install my local mods (and build from ports those that I need to). YMMV; lots of people swear by portupgrade. But I've had better luck with it. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
