Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Is there a best practice for automated updating large number of interdependant ports? I keep my ports tree up-to-date, and sometimes I wish to install applications that depend on a newer version of an existing one, and fail. My current example is gnome. Recently, whatever I want to install

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread DanGer
Hi Ivan, Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 4:47:23 PM, you Cannot open file C\TXT COOKIES\reply-en.txt: Is there a best practice for automated updating large number of interdependant ports? I keep my ports tree up-to-date, and sometimes I wish to install applications that depend on a newer version

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Ivan Voras on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 16:47:23 +0100 Is there a best practice for automated updating large number of interdependant ports? I keep my ports tree up-to-date, and sometimes I wish to install applications that depend on a newer version of an existing one, and fail.

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Christoph Moench-Tegeder
## Ivan Voras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there a best practice for automated updating large number of interdependant ports? I keep my ports tree up-to-date, and sometimes I wish to install applications that depend on a newer version of an existing one, and fail. portupgrade works in most

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
Hello, Is there a best practice for automated updating large number of interdependant ports? [..] What about ports that have dialog boxes which require user intervention? you can use /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to tell portupgrade which options to use when upgrading a certain port. I

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not in this case. Check /usr/ports/UPDATING 20041107: : Do NOT use portupgrade(1) to update your GNOME 2.6 desktop to 2.8 Last time this happened, this is what caused my to deinstall gnome. THe upgrade script could take weeks to run on a reasonable spec machine

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:52:15 + Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not in this case. Check /usr/ports/UPDATING 20041107: : Do NOT use portupgrade(1) to update your GNOME 2.6 desktop to 2.8 Last time this happened, this is what caused my

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Dixon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7 Dec 2004, at 18:04, Kevin Oberman wrote: It seems to me that its a product of gnome being so many ports. Why not just have a few, like KDE (although it appears KDE is going the way of gnome - if this results in portupgrade not working there

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:52:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not in this case. Check /usr/ports/UPDATING 20041107: : Do NOT use portupgrade(1) to update your GNOME 2.6 desktop to 2.8 Last time this happened, this is what caused my to deinstall gnome. THe

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Weinberger
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:52:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that its a product of gnome being so many ports. Why not just have a few, like KDE (although it appears KDE is going the way of gnome - if this results in portupgrade not working there either, its insanity). * With

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Tuesday, 7. December 2004 23:32, Adam Weinberger wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:52:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that its a product of gnome being so many ports. Why not just have a few, like KDE (although it appears KDE is going the way of gnome - if this results

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread David Magda
On Dec 7, 2004, at 12:38, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: you can use /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to tell portupgrade which options to use when upgrading a certain port. I usually check the makefile of ports When using portupgrade(1), are Makefile.local files consulted?