Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-26 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 26 April 2009 01:12:48 Tom Worster wrote: > thanks for the tip, mel. i got rid of the ports involved and reinstalled > with WITHOUT_X11=yes and the install was faster and things are a lot > tidier. > > i had no idea that i ought to be configuring port builds with env vars. is > there doc

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-25 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/23/09 12:54 AM, "Mel Flynn" wrote: > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 17:37:06 Tom Worster wrote: > >> by the by, on my test machine i ended up with python installed. seems to be >> because i needed php5-gd which now depends on python. all for some simple >> freetype2 calls. > > Wrong assumption

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 17:37:06 Tom Worster wrote: > by the by, on my test machine i ended up with python installed. seems to be > because i needed php5-gd which now depends on python. all for some simple > freetype2 calls. Wrong assumption. php-gd doesn't depend on python at all. devel/apr d

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-22 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/20/09 3:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > Many ports will shut down a running instance of themselves when upgraded > like this specifically to avoid the sort of complications that can occur > when the running image does not match what is on disk. > > mysql does, apache doesn't. > > So upgra

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:38:26 Tom Worster wrote: > portmaster -a -x mysql-server > portmaster mysql-server > reboot No no no. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start. Reboot is for kernel upgrades. And never use reboot unless in single user mode, cause reboot is really fast reboot: it doesn'

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-20 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/20/09 3:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > Many ports will shut down a running instance of themselves when upgraded > like this specifically to avoid the sort of complications that can occur > when the running image does not match what is on disk. > > mysql does, apache doesn't. > > So upgra

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-20 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Tom Worster wrote: > though all i really need is mysql/apache/php i have about 100 ports > installed and portmaster -a takes a long time to complete (hour or two). > > so i'm wondering if i ought to be concerned about new binaries being > installed over the old o

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tom Worster wrote: though all i really need is mysql/apache/php i have about 100 ports installed and portmaster -a takes a long time to complete (hour or two). so i'm wondering if i ought to be concerned about new binaries being installed over the old ones on the disk while the old images are lo

portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-20 Thread Tom Worster
though all i really need is mysql/apache/php i have about 100 ports installed and portmaster -a takes a long time to complete (hour or two). so i'm wondering if i ought to be concerned about new binaries being installed over the old ones on the disk while the old images are loaded and running as d