Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-18 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:51:06 -0300 Henry Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A nice portupgrade feature would be to grok UPDATING, and present you with any such notes before the upgrade occurs. Mike I fully agree. It's not the best solution to have an UPDATE file that is very large and

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/09/06 Pete Slagle said: This one bit me too, but we have only ourselves to blame; there was a clear (well, pretty clear) warning of the change in /usr/ports/UPDATING. You would never forget to check UPDATING before running portupgrade would you? :) A nice portupgrade feature would

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-15 Thread Henry Lenzi
A nice portupgrade feature would be to grok UPDATING, and present you with any such notes before the upgrade occurs. Mike I fully agree. It's not the best solution to have an UPDATE file that is very large and that is not integrated in the updating process. UPDATE should be machine-readable,

Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when using portupgrade on a production machine but... Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 to 3.0.23c,1 I think), but it happens that in

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Pete Slagle
Olivier Nicole wrote: I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when using portupgrade on a production machine but... Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 to 3.0.23c,1 I think),