On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:57:05PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:44, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: > > > I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation. I have been > > > running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to csvup the ports files, > > > using the following section in ports-supfile. Note I didn't change the > > > release tag! I updated a few of the ports, including Evolution and > > > Firefox, and had trouble with missing libraries, such as libgthread .. > > > 400 having been rename to ..600.. > > > > > > The machine now feels less stable than an old version of Windows. > > > Things like Tk.pm and other Perl modules no longer work, and won't > > > reinstall. I had to copy over the missing libraries for Evolution and > > > Firefox from another machine. > > > > > > Any advice for recovery, other than a re-installation and fresh start? > > > What should I do next time? > > > > Use portupgrade to update your ports. What you did wrong was updated > > a port that provides a library without updating the ports that depend > > on that library. > > > > Kris > > Thanks for the varying replies. I tried running portupgrade -arR, and > it seems to have worked quite well - almost all the ports are now up to > date, and the system seems to work properly. It took over 24 hours, > partly because some ports stop and ask questions, and the process needs > occasional attention.
You can choose the default settings by setting the BATCH environment variable. Kris
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