I had (have?) several packages in the ports collection that needed updating, and recently someone in the list was talking about using portmanager -u to save on problems with updating; it doesn't touch the ports database, it won't mess up the collection, it walks dependencies automagically, etc...should be as easy as "portmanager -u" and letting it do it's magic, correct?

I read the same thing, and thought I'd give it a shot.

On the Dell 2650 this is running on (FBSD 4.9) *seems* to keep recompiling xfree86-4-server. Is there a way to tell if it is stuck in a loop? I had to stop it yesterday after it had been upgrading for several hours.

The same thing happened to me. Not sure where it was stuck but I was getting a distinct sense of deja-vu watching the output (I don't really mean deja-vu but I can't think of a better way to say it). I left it for 30 hours, and then cancelled it. I'm going to try and run it again today, I'd like to know also if it will eventually get out of the loop, i.e if it is really a loop or something different.


sorry that this post doesn't really help the situation

cali

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