On Friday 16 April 2004 12:42 pm, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:52:04 -0700, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 16 April 2004 11:39 am, sAndri Kok wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I have what I believe are Gnome components installed on my > >> computer (gimp, Gconf, gtk, glib, etc). I'm running portupgrade > >> now and I read the message that I should upgrade Gnome using the > >> script provided by FreeBSD Gnome. The question is, if I only have > >> parts of Gnome installed, while I'm using fluxbox as window > >> manager, do I need to run the script? or is portupgrade fine? my > >> portupgrade is currently still running and I don't seem to > >> encounter any problem (yet). > > > > I also run that way and from my experience the odds are pretty high > > that something will be done out of order. I did a portupgrade -pufr > > glib to do the upgrade and had a few problems that I had to > > manually update. I understand from other comments that re-running > > the upgrade script makes the update go faster than a -rf glib. If > > you look at ports that you have installed that depend on glib, the > > list seems to go forever. I don't know if a -pufrR glib would have > > prevented the problems but that would have used even more computer > > time to do the update. I think the AMD 2400+ needed something like > > 13 hours to do the update the way I did it. > > I personal would go for rebuild everything that depend on pkg-config > instead glib, because of libxml2, libxslt and etc that don't depend > on glib. >
I think that is close to the overkill -rRfa. You only want to update the ports that should be updated. It hasn't been that long since I did a -rf expat. I feel strongly about updating all dependancies of libraries. That is one of the fine features of make in the programming world. If you modify a library, it updates everything that uses it. It just isn't always necessary. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
