On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:55 pm, Roger Merritt wrote: > At 05:15 AM 3/3/03, Kent Stewart wrote: > ><snip> > >What portupgrade options are you using? When you do "-r", you have > > to force "-f". > > Very interesting. Where is that documented? I just did a quick read > through the portupgrade man page and don't see anything about it. I > believe you, and I'm going to try it on my libxml2, which has refused > to build for about six weeks now, but this is one of the things that > has made me disenchanted with portupgrade. That, and things like > 'portsdb -Uu'.
You have to live with the -uU. INDEX isn't updated very often and if you don't cvsup right after it is, it won't have the current requirements. If you use portupgrade and the other tools, you have to update INDEX.db. If you refuse or don't cvsup ports-all, the "make index" probably won't work properly to begin with. Some days, portsdb -U won't work and you have to use "make index". Regardless of which method you use, you always have to run "portsdb -u" after you have updated INDEX.
Since I always recreate INDEX and INDEX.db, I have refused ports/INDEX. There isn't any point in downloading a new copy and then destroying it with the new version.
I looked at your other email. Libxml2 has requirements and I think your are out of date. The latest portupgrade does wonderful things. I would start by upgrading it to portupgrade-20030228 first. It has fixed the requirement for the pkgdb -F being run unless they tell you to.
If you want to see if it will work, run "portupgrade -Ruf libxml2". That won't take very long. You have to build everything that uses it if it works and that is the -r option. If you do both at the same time, it will be hours until they finish.
I don't know which is the best list. I start out with the maintainer but I really don't believe there is anything wrong with libxml2. I found a problem making libxslt package and marcus@ fixed it right away. Since then, it has been upgraded on my 4 main machines.
Now that you mention it, libxslt is another problem I've been having. Haven't been able to upgrade it for a long time for reasons similar to libxml2.
On Marcus' advice I took a look at my version of Python. Somehow I had version 1.6, while the port is 1.5.2_2! So I have run 'pkg_deinstall python 1.6' and am now running 'portupgrade -NR lang/python15' (it reported there was no package or port named "python15"). When that's done I'll try again with libxml2 and libxslt. And pango.
But thank goodness for this mailing list. Otherwise I'd never find out about some of these "gotchas".
-- Roger
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