On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT), Beastie-Boy wrote:
Ok, many thanks for your replies.
I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE.
That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk.
When you do such an update (major version number), you should
always reinstall (update) your applications. You can avoid it
by installing the compat-Nx-i386 or compat-Nx-amd64 ports (where
N is the previously used major version number).
You've found many advices on how to do that already from the
list.
The problem i had was that gdm, gnome didnt start after the upgrade.
That was to be expected.
So i tried to build the gnome and gdm thing again via pkg_add(didnt work)
and make install clean in ports(either).
You should make sure _all_ dependencies get recompiled. Using
a port management tool for this task often is more comfortable
than dealing with the "bare ports" (but it basically is not
wrong).
There are two great tools for dealing with problems stemming from the update of
a single port going bad: pkg_cleanup and pkg_tree. I prefer portmaster over
portupdate because portmaster only uses the data that is there from building or
adding port/packages. portmaster probably works better for me because I only
update in response to a need or problem.
I do not have enough time or computing power to build what is required for a
workstation. I am using FreeBSD 9.0 and xfce 4.8. To get the functionality I had
with KDE3.5 I ended up with 489 packages. I had hoped for a smaller number but
that seems to be the norm for KDE or Gome. The only ports I built were a couple
that insisted on installing an older version of perl and/or python. Everything
else was via package add. In my experience this model only works near the front
of a major release. As the lower level ports diverge updates must be built. Here
pkg_cleanup is a great tool for taking a step back. Perhaps building regularly
on a weekly basis and updating everying would work. For me after I get a
functional system I only add new stuff. I do not remember having to reinstalling
something because it did not work.
Before someone pointed out pkg_cleanup I pretty completely broke my desktop
(this in the 7.x days) just by upgrading firefox and then chasing the issues
that came up.
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