Re: Newbie Package Questions
Jim Angstadt wrote: Hi All, I'm new to FreeBSD and a first time poster to this list. I have used Linux for several years but would like to see what FreeBSD is like. Welcome! tiny# uname -a FreeBSD tiny.brc.localnet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Good grief, what am I doing wrong? This cannot be the correct way to manage errata. Please accept my apologies for the long message, I wanted to give a fuller picture of these problems. NP. First, foremost, **IANAE**, YMMV, #include and so on. Really. This tangled mess of dependencies is exactly what the ports system was designed to solve. Several automated tools exist to help. I'd suggest installing cvsup & portupgrade, and running something like `portupgrade -arR` (but check the manpage first to see what exactly that does). I use portupgrade, and occasionally portmanager, to keep almost 700 ports up to date on my workstation. Colin Percival's "portsnap" is up and coming, too, and I *think* is based on binary patching. In the event that you prefer to use pre-compiled packages (and it seems as if you have thus far), pass "-P" to portupgrade as well, and it will do its best to avoid compiling software during the upgrade process. Dru Lavigne has a good article on using portupgrade and friends at: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie Package Questions
Jim Angstadt wrote: Hi All, I'm new to FreeBSD and a first time poster to this list. I have used Linux for several years but would like to see what FreeBSD is like. tiny# uname -a FreeBSD tiny.brc.localnet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The daily security report has identified 10 problem applications. So far, I have fixed one app, lynx-2.8.5 by deleting it with pkg_delete. Then added the 2.8.5_2 package. Simple, no dependancy problems. Next, I tried to uninstall ruby-1.8.2_4 but found two dependencies: ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 portupgrade-20041226_7 which uninstalled with no problem. Then on to uninstall of ruby-1.8.2_4 : tiny# pkg_delete ruby-1.8.2_4 pkg_delete: '/usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system/created.rid' fails original MD5 checksum - not deleted. pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system' pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?) tiny# tiny# ls /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/ ls: /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/: No such file or directory tiny# ls /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system ls: /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system: No such file or directory tiny# I'm not sure how to proceed with this one. A different package problem: tiny# pkg_delete ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_13 tiny# pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_15.tbz Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_15.tbz... Done. pkg_add: package 'ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_15' conflicts with ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13 pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or -f to force installation tiny# pkg_delete ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13 pkg_delete: package 'ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: gv-3.6.1 apsfilter-7.2.6 ggv-2.8.5 gnome2-2.10.2 tiny# Do I really have to delete / update all these apps just to update ghostscript. One last example: tiny# pkg_delete libiconv-1.9.2_1 pkg_delete: package 'libiconv-1.9.2_1' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: gettext-0.14.5 windowmaker-0.92.0 libgpg-error-1.0_1 ... plus another 125 packages Good grief, what am I doing wrong? This cannot be the correct way to manage errata. You might look into portupgrade. /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade (Just '# make install clean') It will handle upgrading both binary packages and ports, plus their dependencies. Don't forget to keep your ports tree up to date. HTH Please accept my apologies for the long message, I wanted to give a fuller picture of these problems. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Newbie Package Questions
Hi All, I'm new to FreeBSD and a first time poster to this list. I have used Linux for several years but would like to see what FreeBSD is like. tiny# uname -a FreeBSD tiny.brc.localnet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The daily security report has identified 10 problem applications. So far, I have fixed one app, lynx-2.8.5 by deleting it with pkg_delete. Then added the 2.8.5_2 package. Simple, no dependancy problems. Next, I tried to uninstall ruby-1.8.2_4 but found two dependencies: ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 portupgrade-20041226_7 which uninstalled with no problem. Then on to uninstall of ruby-1.8.2_4 : tiny# pkg_delete ruby-1.8.2_4 pkg_delete: '/usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system/created.rid' fails original MD5 checksum - not deleted. pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system' pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?) tiny# tiny# ls /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/ ls: /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/: No such file or directory tiny# ls /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system ls: /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system: No such file or directory tiny# I'm not sure how to proceed with this one. A different package problem: tiny# pkg_delete ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_13 tiny# pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_15.tbz Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_15.tbz... Done. pkg_add: package 'ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_15' conflicts with ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13 pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or -f to force installation tiny# pkg_delete ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13 pkg_delete: package 'ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: gv-3.6.1 apsfilter-7.2.6 ggv-2.8.5 gnome2-2.10.2 tiny# Do I really have to delete / update all these apps just to update ghostscript. One last example: tiny# pkg_delete libiconv-1.9.2_1 pkg_delete: package 'libiconv-1.9.2_1' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: gettext-0.14.5 windowmaker-0.92.0 libgpg-error-1.0_1 ... plus another 125 packages Good grief, what am I doing wrong? This cannot be the correct way to manage errata. Please accept my apologies for the long message, I wanted to give a fuller picture of these problems. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
