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



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