Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?(SOLVED)

2011-05-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
startx command not found :(, no bash ran # pkg_add -r bash # pkg_add -r xfce4 did not succeed, now ran to ports # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 # make install clean and am stuck here.  Hopefully this gets me back on my feet. Otherwise, it has been a big exercise :) and definitely I will

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
/usr/ports/INDEX-*.db # portupgrade -af Did not work correctly[too many customizations] and Tried again # freebsd-update install and had nothing more to do :( I had many packages that need to be updated so I am running : # portupgrade -arRp will this prompt me for customizations? Yes

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
/usr/ports/INDEX-*.db # portupgrade -af Did not work correctly[too many customizations] and Tried again # freebsd-update install and had nothing more to do :( I had many packages that need to be updated so I am running : # portupgrade -arRp will this prompt me for customizations? Yes

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
Any suggestions to start over and get this done in a more efficient manner.  Thinking of nuking OpenOffice Done:) grullahighschool# cd openoffice.org-3 grullahighschool# ls Makefiledistinfofiles pkg-descr pkg-plist grullahighschool# make deinstall ===

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
running now ATM # cd /usr/ports/ # make clean build deinstall install Will it install all the ports? or only the ones that are installed? # freebsd-update install and had nothing more to do :( I had many packages that need to be updated so I am running : # portupgrade -arRp -a is equivalent

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 6 May 2011 11:36:07 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I am running now ATM # cd /usr/ports/ # make clean build deinstall install Will it install all the ports? or only the ones that are installed? Oh, I've never tried that... install all

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: This is what I am running now ATM # cd /usr/ports/ # make clean build deinstall install Will it install all the ports? or only the ones that are installed? It's going to try to install all 22,000 ports. That won't succeed due to conflicts, but

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: This is what I am running now ATM # cd /usr/ports/ # make clean build deinstall install Will it install all the ports?   or only the ones that are installed? It's going to

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011 11:36:07 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I am running now ATM # cd /usr/ports/ # make clean build deinstall install Will it install all the ports?   or only the ones

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Polytropon wrote: Maybe it's much better if you utilize the ports infra- structure. # cd /var/db/pkg # pkg_delete -fad or # pkg_delete -f * These are both equivalent to # pkg_delete -a ___

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
Warren, Sorry to ask, but what does one run after we run # portmaster -na I have cleared all questions and am ready to update, what magical command will do it? Thanks, Antonio On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011, Polytropon wrote:

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Warren, Sorry to ask, but what does one run after we run # portmaster -na I have cleared all questions and am ready to update, what magical command will do it? Thanks, Antonio On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:54

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 6 May 2011 13:57:01 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for TOP POSTING :(, but do I run # portmaster -a -f -D and do an in place update of all ports? is this the recommended way or nuking and rebuilding? In case you did already remove all installed ports,

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Antonio Olivares Sorry for TOP POSTING :(, but do I run # portmaster -a -f -D and do an in place update of all ports? is this the recommended way or nuking and rebuilding? After the attempt to install every port, I'd

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Antonio Olivares Sorry for TOP POSTING :(, but do I run # portmaster -a -f -D and do an in place update of all ports? is this the recommended

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Antonio Olivares Sorry for TOP POSTING :(, but do I run #

Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
to do :( I had many packages that need to be updated so I am running : # portupgrade -arRp will this prompt me for customizations? Thanks in advance/advice/suggestions. I am taking the plunge a little further. Before I just installed and left it alone :( [except for a few packages that I

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Polytropon
customizations] and Tried again I think customizations refers to the make config screens, correct? It's the typical kind of interaction that _nobody_ likes. :-) I had many packages that need to be updated so I am running : # portupgrade -arRp will this prompt me for customizations? The -P (and -PP

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
of these :( This is why I am asking. I had many packages that need to be updated so I am running : # portupgrade -arRp will this prompt me for customizations? The -P (and -PP) parameters requests precompiled binary packages - there is no way to configure them (as they have already been built using

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Brennan
that _nobody_ likes. :-) Yes these are the ones :) I have encountered two/three days of these :( This is why I am asking. I had many packages that need to be updated so I am running : # portupgrade -arRp will this prompt me for customizations? The -P (and -PP) parameters requests

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
for old 8.1 release :(, now I have updated ports tree with # portsnap fetch # portsnap extract and # portsnap install and running : # portupgrade -arRp I hope that it would finish soon. I don't know enough like I would like to. Sadly :( except for installing some ports [cd /usr/ports/editor/some

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Polytropon
tag=RELENG_8.0.0. Then, # cd /usr/src # make update # make buildworld buildkernel See /usr/src/Makefile (comment section) for which make targets are defined and in which order you must proceed for a system upgrade based on sources. and running : # portupgrade -arRp

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Frank Shute
correctly[too many customizations] and Tried again # freebsd-update install and had nothing more to do :( I had many packages that need to be updated so I am running : # portupgrade -arRp will this prompt me for customizations? Yes it will. I usually use the -C flag of portupgrade when

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: something to keep in mind portmaster does the same thing and all of portupgrades switches work with portmaster, portmaster doesn't have the same switches as portupgrade. Or, being more precise, it has some of the same option flags, but they mean

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Warren Block
running : # portupgrade -arRp -a is equivalent to -arR. And that's building packages, which is not necessary unless you want to copy them to another machine. will this prompt me for customizations? Options menus? Yes, the ports will ask on their own. If you use the -c or -C options

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-07-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 29/06/07, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for potential issues

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-07-01 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 01 July 2007 17:19:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/06/07, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather

running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for potential issues with every package that you're going to upgrade. So, is running

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread Chad Perrin
running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books

running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread Robert Huff
Michael P. Soulier writes: As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for potential issues with every package that you're going to upgrade. So, is running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't checked for issues for your system? I cannot

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread r17fbsd
At 07:14 PM 6/29/2007, you wrote: So, is running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't checked for issues for your system? I just started using portupgrade recently, and no, I would NOT let it rip with the --all option. I find it's most useful for the libraries and required

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for potential issues with every package that you're going

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:14:52 -0400 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. I've been updating ports daily for several years using portupgrade since

Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-05 Thread a non y mouse
Bob Perry wrote: I have 48 dependencies on one box and 151 on another and only use a dialup service. Disconnections are common and can be a real problem in this situation. sounds like it's time to start downloading them all and go to bed ;) i feel you...when I got my first UNIX workstation i

Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-04 Thread Bob Perry
/usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run portupgrade on the dependencies individually once identified? I have 48 dependencies on one box

Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/4/06, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run portupgrade on the dependencies individually once

RE: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-04 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 04-Feb-2006 Bob Perry wrote: /usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run portupgrade on the dependencies individually once identified?

Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-04 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 04-Feb-2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/4/06, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run

Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-04 Thread Bob Perry
Conrad Sabatier wrote: On 04-Feb-2006 Bob Perry wrote: /usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run portupgrade on the dependencies

Simple program to check for problems prior to running portupgrade

2004-12-24 Thread Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/portupgrade-check.php -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Simple program to check for problems prior to running portupgrade

2004-12-24 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:28 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/portupgrade-check.php Nice job, Bill! Appears to work well here. -- Cheers, Trey --- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it

Re: Simple program to check for problems prior to running portupgrade

2004-12-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
Bill Moran wrote: http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/portupgrade-check.php Very nice. I just waded through /usr/ports/UPDATING for the first time, and seeing your extracting tool immediately after that exercise shows me how valuable your tool will be in the future. It also forced me to

How to exclude upgrading kde in running 'portupgrade'

2004-06-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks I am prepared upgrading kde-3.1.4 to kde-3.2.2. Because I am running FreeBSD 5.2 on a slow PC, AMD-k6-350, I will take following route # cd / # pkg_delete kde\* arts\* qt\* quanta\* kdevelop\* # env PACKAGESITE=http://people.fruitsalad.org/lofi/packages/5.2.1-RELEASE/Latest/ pkg_add -r

Re: How to exclude upgrading kde in running 'portupgrade'

2004-06-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # portupgrade -aRrv -x kde I don't know whether the '-x' tag will excluding upgrading kde otherwise the PC will run for several days. That should work. If you want to see for sure before starting, use the -n option -- that's exactly why it exists. It

Re: How to exclude upgrading kde in running 'portupgrade'

2004-06-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Lowell, Tks for your advice. # portupgrade -aRrv -x kde I don't know whether the '-x' tag will excluding upgrading kde otherwise the PC will run for several days. That should work. If you want to see for sure before starting, use the -n option -- that's exactly why it exists.

Problem after running portupgrade (continue)

2004-05-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I found following files on # ls -lh /tmp/ srwxrwxrwx 1 wnn wheel 0B Mar 28 23:22 cd_sockV4 srwxr-xr-x 1 satimis wheel 0B May 25 19:33 file1XG2EX srwxr-xr-x 1 satimis wheel 0B May 25 22:37 file38j0wR srwxr-xr-x 1 satimis wheel 0B May 23 23:41

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, Tks for your advice. Look into /var/log for a list of files like this example: cron.0.bz2 maillog.1.bz2 sendmail.st.0 cron.1.bz2 maillog.2.bz2 sendmail.st.1 Note the bz2 extensions and the files that have digits at the end.

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Remko, Tks for your advice. It says to you that the var drive is full, the var drive keeps logs etc so pretty crucial that it has some space. Go to /var/log and check which files are a bit big and rotate them. You can do that by entering single user mode, mount the /var, go to

Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I encountered problems after running # portupgrade -aRrvO At completion following warning popup; . .. Backing up the old version /var: write failed, filesystem is full bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzip2: No space left on device

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-24 Thread Chris
On Monday 24 May 2004 11:49 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I encountered problems after running # portupgrade -aRrvO At completion following warning popup; . .. Backing up the old version /var: write failed, filesystem is full Look into /var/log for a list of files like

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-24 Thread Remko Lodder
Hey again Stephen, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I encountered problems after running # portupgrade -aRrvO At completion following warning popup; . .. Backing up the old version /var: write failed, filesystem is full bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzip2

when running portupgrade triggering reboot / how to do detailedsystem log to see precise reboot trigger?

2003-09-26 Thread rtjohan
Have not been able to keep machine up-to-date with cvsup since each time after the cvsup has completed, the portupgrade reboots the machine. Probably the first thing to do is to enable some log utility to capture what triggered the reboot. How should I go about this - logging in as much detail

Running portupgrade in the background?

2003-01-10 Thread Martin Gignac
Hi, I'm often use portupgrade in combination with sudo from an SSH session and up till now I've never been able to put the portupgrade process in the background so that it can finish its job and I can safely exit the SSH session. Whenever I've done this the portupgrade process seems to die and I

Re: Running portupgrade in the background?

2003-01-10 Thread Chris Doherty
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:54:17PM -0500, Martin Gignac said: Hi, I'm often use portupgrade in combination with sudo from an SSH session and up till now I've never been able to put the portupgrade process in the background so that it can finish its job and I can safely exit the SSH