On Wednesday 26 January 2005 05:38 am, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > On Jan 26, 2005, at 4:38 AM, cali wrote: > >> 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 > > Actually the developer for portmanager contacted me about it. He > asked for some logfiles, and I didn't think the list wanted a 300k > zip file mass mailed so I was privately emailing him about the > situation. He's looking into it and hoped to have a fix soon. He's > been wonderful with response time to this error and I was glad to > help with any logs or testing I could. > > He had hoped to have a fix in there soon, but I don't know if he > found answers yet as to what caused the loop. > > -Bart
Thanks Bart for your patience, this one required me to set up XFree86-4 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine and back date all of the ports. So now I know that on December 1st, 2004 /usr/ports/graphics/xfree86-dri and /usr/ports/graphics/dri both existed and both report their name as dri-5.0.2,2 on that date. This caused portmanager to loop so I have duplicated the problem which means it can be fixed. I still need to move the ports forward to the current date before I have a certain fix but right now I think the quick work around will be to go into each of these directories (graphics/dri and graphics/xfree86-dri) and manually de-install them. Then let portmanager pull back in the correct one. That worked for the ports as they existed on December 1st, 2004 but I still need to verify it works for the current date. When I have a certain fix I'll post it here and cc everyone in this thread, and when I have a fix in portmanager so this won't happen again I'll cc everyone again. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"