On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ron (Lists) <rg.li...@rzweb.com> wrote:
> I had been using portupgrade for several years and never had any problems > and upgrading ports was quick and simple process every week. But, due to > portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I have > switched to using portmaster and am having nothing but problems, so much so > that I dread updating my ports. > > I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong or what I don't understand > about portmaster. I've looked on google and can't find any documentation > that isn't just basic stuff or rehashes of the man pages (which are fine for > reference, but not helpful in understanding how to use it). > I'm pretty sure this is a problem with a port and it's depends listing or something and not specific to portmaster. This should be relatively easy to test, try it with portupgrade/portmanager instead on the same ports tree. Your implication that this sort of thing didn't happen on portupgrade directly contradicts my experience. You'll probably get better help on freebsd-ports@ although there are people on this list that can help but list activity is low right now. Anyway I also see there a recent entry in UPDATING about libltdl. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
