Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This past weekend, I CVSup'd the ports tree and prepared to run
> portupgrade. I noticed a large number of GNOME ports in my output
> from pkg_version and, found that I would need to run the GNOME Project
> 's upgrade script to upgrade to 2.12.
>
> I use a dial-up modem had been timed out on several occasions.during
> the process This happened about three times during the night and I
> had to restart the upgrade each time. Note that I failed to use the
> restart flag recommended during the first restart. I finally ended up
> with a "succesful upgrade..." message even though I now have only 188
> ports after beginning with 297. Amongst the missing is gnome 2.12
> itself.
>
> I'm hoping there is some way to get things back to normal and rerun
> the upgrade without re-installing the missing ports. BTW, I did back
> up /var/db/pkg.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated. I run 5.4 -RELEASE #0. I'm running
> this message from a second machine but should be able to supply the
> logs if needed.
In the worst case, you should be able to delete all the Gnome-related
ports and re-add them. [I did that on purpose, because my only Gnome
machine is *so* much slower than my build server.]
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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