2009/4/11 David Southwell <da...@vizion2000.net>: > On Friday 10 April 2009 11:43:33 kime...@gmail.com wrote: >> Paul Schmehl wrote: >> > --On Friday, April 10, 2009 11:17:00 -0500 Paul Schmehl >> > >> > <pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com> wrote: >> >> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING, if you want to upgrade to perl5.10, >> >> you do >> >> the following: >> >> >> >> Portupgrade users: >> >> 0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety): >> >> pkgdb -Ff >> >> >> >> 1) Reinstall perl with new 5.10: >> >> portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.\* >> >> >> >> 2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl: >> >> portupgrade -fr perl >> >> >> >> My machine got rebooted right in the middle of step 3. Is there a >> >> way to >> >> resume where I left off? Or do I just start over? >> > >> > Let me rephrase. I don't see a way in portupgrade to start over where >> > I left off. However, pkg_info -R lang/perl* shows that all my ports >> > depend on 5.10 and no ports are still depending upon 5.8. Is it safe >> > to assume that the reboot happened after portupgrade had finished? >> >> Nope. With this info you can assume that step 2/3 worked. Not the step 3/3. >> I dont know how to restart at the stage it was before reboot as I dont >> use portupgrade. >> Personnaly, as portmaster failed with some ports and abort the whole >> update process, I wrote a simple sh script which loop over the packages >> which need perl (got via the via pkg_info -R, need reordering >> thought...), exec portmaster ${PKG}, and keep a list of which reinstall >> succeed and which failed. >> >> Regards > > I hope it is not too far off topic but: > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this one: > > Stale dependency: bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 -> perl-5.8.9_2 (lang/perl5.8): > can't convert nil into string > > > My update to 10 seems to be OK except for this.. > > I cannot find its origin so do not know what to deinstall and reinstall > > It would also be great to get all bsdpan into the pkgdb with their origins.. > is there any way to do that? > > Thanks in advance > > David >
Perhaps you should start a new thread. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"