I'll try the portmanager in future, but for now I already took Andrew's
advice
and started reinstalling ports from the latest version of the ports
collection.
I reinstalled a lot of the ports I installed earlier from the old ports
collection
that came with FreBSD 6.0 Stable distrib. Things seemed to go well...
until:
In the middle of the marathon build of gnome2 2.12, the machine (Compaq
Pentium III 933MHz with 256MB RAM) unpredictably locks up. Happened
several times so far at different places in the build. Keyboard is
dead. Switching
console does not work. The hard disk keeps spinning and the power light
is on
but there is no sign of any other activity in the machine. Had to force
a power
down and reboot. I am running FreeBSD 6.0 Stable with X11+Gnome 2.10
and the older ports for 3 months now without any problems. So presumably
the new ports installs have something to do with this new unstable behavior.
Anyone seen this before?
Chandan
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
On 2/20/06, Chandan Haldar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks a lot for the direction. All goes well until portupgrade
asks me
to run 'pkgdb -F',
which asks me to resolve stale dependencies. I have a large number of
ports installed and
the dependencies seem somewhat intractable for manual resolution. Is
this the only way
to resolve the stale dependencies or am I as usual missing something
:-(
? From the pkgdb
manpage I could not understand the implication of the score and how
that
helps me
select a new dependency...
If you have some spare time, consider reinstalling all
the ports.
You might try sysutils/portmanager first. It upgrades lowest
dependencies first then works it's way up the dependency tree so stale
dependencies are not usually a problem. It works very well.
Chris
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