Re: portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely

2009-11-29 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 12:50 AM + 11/29/09, Frank Shute wrote: You don't mention what command you are using to upgrade your ports/packages. Sorry: portupgrade -aPPR You do realise that you don't have to upgrade your ports if you go from 7.1 to 7.2. You can do but don't have to. No, I didn't realize that. The

Re: portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely

2009-11-29 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:16:15 -0800 Paul Hoffman wrote: So, I have now done a long, painful portrupgrade -a', having it stop regularly to prompt me for configuration settings. I'm sure portupgrade has an option to do a recursive configure before actual upgrade. If it doesn't you may look at

Re: portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely

2009-11-29 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:16:15 -0800 Paul Hoffman wrote: So, I have now done a long, painful portrupgrade -a', having it stop regularly to prompt me for configuration settings. I'm sure portupgrade has an option to do a recursive configure before

Re: portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely

2009-11-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:16:15PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 12:50 AM + 11/29/09, Frank Shute wrote: You don't mention what command you are using to upgrade your ports/packages. Sorry: portupgrade -aPPR My opinion is that you shouldn't use packages and compile from source instead.

Re: portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely

2009-11-29 Thread RW
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:16:15 -0800 Paul Hoffman phoff...@proper.com wrote: At 12:50 AM + 11/29/09, Frank Shute wrote: You don't mention what command you are using to upgrade your ports/packages. Sorry: portupgrade -aPPR Packages for a release are built against the ports tree that's

Re: portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely

2009-11-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 07:47:03PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. I used freebsd-update to upgrade a system from 7.1 to 7.2. The main upgrade went fine, but upgrading the ports had huge problems. It could not find most (but not all) of the packages to upgrade. A typical part of