Re: Re: kde4 rebuild - some guidance please
On 1/8/2013 5:45 PM, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: On 01/05/13 05:23, David Southwell wrote: Hi I am having problems with my kde4 installation and feel the need to deinstall and start again. In view of the number of ports and dependencies can someone please let me know the cleanest way of doing this. It would probably be safer to assume an upwards and downwards recursive build. Thanks in advance david I just used: # pourtmaster --force-config x11/kde4 to rebuild my KDE4 from scratch. You can also pass the -f switch to rebuild in place, although I prefer blowing away and starting fresh. -- John M. Cooper Hi Thanks very much. I eventually solved the problems by the following a rather labourious sequence. with a significant number of manual interventions in the process of upgrading python ports. I now suspect the problems were primarily due to some conflicts in the python ports. Here is what worked: # portupgrade -f *py* # portupgrade -fr *kde* # portupgrade -fr *xorg* David -- David Southwell ARPS AFIAP Photographic Arts Trained & experienced competition judge, mentor, trainer, lecturer, Advanced digital techniques, international project photography ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: kde4 rebuild - some guidance please
On 01/05/13 05:23, David Southwell wrote: Hi I am having problems with my kde4 installation and feel the need to deinstall and start again. In view of the number of ports and dependencies can someone please let me know the cleanest way of doing this. It would probably be safer to assume an upwards and downwards recursive build. Thanks in advance david I just used: # portmaster --force-config x11/kde4 to rebuild my KDE4 from scratch. You can also pass the -f switch to rebuild in place, although I prefer blowing away and starting fresh. -- John M. Cooper -- -- John M. Cooper ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
kde4 rebuild - some guidance please
Hi I am having problems with my kde4 installation and feel the need to deinstall and start again. In view of the number of ports and dependencies can someone please let me know the cleanest way of doing this. It would probably be safer to assume an upwards and downwards recursive build. Thanks in advance david -- David Southwell ARPS AFIAP Photographic Arts Trained & experienced competition judge, mentor, trainer, lecturer, Advanced digital techniques, international project photography ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
