Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 21:36:38 PDT 2007


P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
>
>> Not anymore!  Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those
>> ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because
>> portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work.  It is not fun any
>> more!  Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or
>> it fails all together.  I have forgotten the last time I updated my
>> ports without any issues.  Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with
>> rarian, they install files on the same directory.
> Did you have a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING ?
> (I guess you have got a problem with the latest gnome.) 

>From my experience I think anyone upgrading on 8-CURRENT (and from
reports perhaps 7-????) will have the same issue

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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
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