Michael P. Soulier writes:
Might as well paint PLEASE KICK ME! and an arrow pointing
down on your back
I'm used to binary-package distributions that seem to try a lot
harder to not break. I suppose that ports is evolving, and it
used to be worse, so I shouldn't complain.
On 28/03/07 Robert Huff said:
But I bet I'm not the only one who, once upon a time, happened to
try portupgrade -arR or equivalent after forgetting to read
UPDATING and ended up with more to do than I originally thought.
Might as well paint PLEASE KICK ME! and an arrow pointing
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:19:47 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but with training my computer is teaching me what
is right and what is not. I think.
... and I thought that's why I had stopped using Windows...hmmm ;)
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:36:59 -0400
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28/03/07 RW said:
The gettext upgrade is actually a good example of what portupgrade
offers. With portupgrade the -rf option is advisable, but not
essential, with portmaster, it's essential that the -r
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:15:53 -0400
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:36:59 -0400
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28/03/07 RW said:
The gettext upgrade is actually a good example of what portupgrade
offers. With portupgrade the -rf option
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:40:05 +0100
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Portmanager is really no better, the dependencies recorded in the
package database are also recursive. The big problem with gettext
was that a lot of port failed to build afterwards, leaving them with a
missing library.
I have
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:41:06 -0400
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, I have never had a problem using 'portmanager'
provided I used the '-p -f' flags.
OPPS, should have been '-p -u' flags.
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:41:06 -0400
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:40:05 +0100
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Portmanager is really no better, the dependencies recorded in the
package database are also recursive. The big problem with gettext
was that a lot of
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:17:13 -0400
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking at
http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php
while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like
Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24
(security/p5-GSSAPI):
canonical diatribe on The Art of
Pkgdb -F (a great thread title, BTW). Note also that it is nearly
six years old, and that additional package-management tools have been
proposed, created, and released to the public, and some may have already
been EOL'ed and buried, but the rest of them aren't
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:19:47 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Obviously, as I am not about to batter you
about the neck and head with the beam projecting
from my eye (hold still, you've got a . . .),
I can only suggest a decent cringepray
manouver (as I execute from time to
On 28/03/07 Kevin Kinsey said:
Here is a time-honored and rather canonical diatribe on The Art of
Pkgdb -F (a great thread title, BTW). Note also that it is nearly
six years old, and that additional package-management tools have been
proposed, created, and released to the public, and some
On 28/03/07 RW said:
The gettext upgrade is actually a good example of what portupgrade
offers. With portupgrade the -rf option is advisable, but not
essential, with portmaster, it's essential that the -r option is used,
If it's not, or the upgrade fails to complete, you can end-up with not
On 28/03/07 Gerard Seibert said:
You can run:
portmanager -u -p -l
That will rebuild all broken and or missing dependencies for all of
your ports.
How does it know what ports are installed? Originally, I thought that the
pkgdb was that source of information, so if it was gone, how
Hi,
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Now, I've been upgrading ports via
portupgrade -R port
as suggested in the handbook. As -R upgrades only those packages that require
those supplied, and not those that it requires, would that cause it?
Be careful with your
On 28/03/07, Joel Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Now, I've been upgrading ports via
portupgrade -R port
as suggested in the handbook. As -R upgrades only those packages that require
those supplied, and not those that it
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 28/03/07 Kevin Kinsey said:
Here is a time-honored and rather canonical diatribe on The Art of
Pkgdb -F (a great thread title, BTW). Note also that it is nearly
six years old, and that additional package-management tools have been
proposed, created, and released
Kevin Kinsey writes:
But I bet I'm not the only one who, once upon a time, happened to
try portupgrade -arR or equivalent after forgetting to read
UPDATING and ended up with more to do than I originally thought.
Might as well paint PLEASE KICK ME! and an arrow pointing
down on
I'm looking at
http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php
while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like
Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/p5-GSSAPI):
p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no]
I must ask. How the hell am I supposed
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:17:13 -0400
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking at
http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php
while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like
Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/p5-GSSAPI):
Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/p5-GSSAPI):
p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no]
Well this one is pretty obvious. Look at what the stale dependency is,
and what it's suggesting? :)
Sometimes it can be less clear, though. You just
On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Josh Carroll wrote:
Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/
p5-GSSAPI):
p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no]
Well this one is pretty obvious. Look at what the stale dependency is,
and what it's suggesting? :)
On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Jeffrey Goldberg said:
On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Josh Carroll wrote:
Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24
(security/ p5-GSSAPI):
p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no]
In this case the port p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 is
Beech Rintoul wrote:
On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Jeffrey Goldberg said:
On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Josh Carroll wrote:
Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24
(security/ p5-GSSAPI):
p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no]
In this case the port
On 27/03/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:17:13 -0400
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking at
http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php
while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like
Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 -
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