Re: [OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:38:46AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerard Seibert wrote: IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially if he is not familiar with the FBSD ports system. Just my opinion

Re: [OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Aug 22, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:38:46AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerard Seibert wrote: IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially if he is not familiar

Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Hi; I successfully rebuilt FreeBSD from 5.3 to 6.1. However, when I ran portmanager -u my server went into an infinite loop! It kept reinstalling Bind and I think Perl. I don't think it installed anything more than that. I had run this command: make delete-old-libs but also had added the lib

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 09:25, beno wrote: I successfully rebuilt FreeBSD from 5.3 to 6.1. However, when I ran portmanager -u my server went into an infinite loop! It kept reinstalling Bind and I think Perl. I don't think it installed anything more than that. I had run this command: make

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Gerard Seibert wrote: Do you have the latest version of 'portmanager' installed? There was an older version that had this bug, but it was fixed. How do I upgrade portmanager? beno ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 10:40, beno wrote: How do I upgrade portmanager? Run 'portmanager -V' and see if it equals: 0.4.1_6. If not, you have an older version of portmanager. Update it just like any other port, only do not use portmanager to do it. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Gerard Seibert wrote: Run 'portmanager -V' and see if it equals: 0.4.1_6. 0.2.0 If not, you have an older version of portmanager. Update it just like any other port, only do not use portmanager to do it. That's my question. How do I update it if I can't use portmanager, portmaster (which

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Run 'portmanager -V' and see if it equals: 0.4.1_6. 0.2.0 If not, you have an older version of portmanager. Update it just like any other port, only do not use portmanager to do it. That's my question. How do I update it if I can't use portmanager,

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 12:03, beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Run 'portmanager -V' and see if it equals: 0.4.1_6. 0.2.0 If not, you have an older version of portmanager. Update it just like any other port, only do not use portmanager to do it. That's my question. How do I update

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Garrett Cooper wrote: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make deinstall make install I'm afraid that just reinstalled 0.2.0_1 ... if you haven't cvsup'ed lately, I'd try to grab a snapshot of ports first. How? TIA, beno ___

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install make clean Well, here's exactly what I'm doing: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make install make clean /usr/local/bin/portmanager

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
beno wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make deinstall make install I'm afraid that just reinstalled 0.2.0_1 ... if you haven't cvsup'ed lately, I'd try to grab a snapshot of ports first. How? TIA, beno Run rm -Rf on /usr/ports/ to remove your stale ports,

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 13:14, beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install make clean Well, here's exactly what I'm doing: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make

Re: (no subject) Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 13:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:14:10 -0400 beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install make clean Well, here's exactly what I'm

[OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 13:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:14:10 -0400 beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install make clean

Re: [OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 15:02, Garrett Cooper wrote:     CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a better, more efficient way to download the ports Makefiles. It will take him all of 10-20 minutes to configure if he reads the documentation and uses the example file. I am always

Re: [OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerard Seibert wrote: IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially if he is not familiar with the FBSD ports system. Just my opinion though. CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a better, more efficient way to

Re: [OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerard Seibert wrote: IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially if he is not familiar with the FBSD ports system. Just my opinion though. CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a