Hi folks,
i ran into problems keeping my ports-collection up to date.
Although i did a portsnap fet and install i think there are obsolete an old
ports still on the disk.
I tried to compile a programm and it complained about an older version of a
depending package.
I deleted the whole ports-dir,
On 19/05/2012 15:27, Beastie-Boy wrote:
i ran into problems keeping my ports-collection up to date.
Although i did a portsnap fet and install i think there are obsolete an old
ports still on the disk.
portsnap will synchronise your ports tree with what is in the FreeBSD
CVS repo. The way it
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:
That's a bit drastic and pretty much something you'ld never actually
want to do in normal usage. However, for completeness' sake:
# pkg_delete -af
will remove all installed ports. After doing that there should be
hardly anything left under
On 19/05/2012 16:07, Warren Block wrote:
The -f is probably not needed. I've done this rarely enough to not
recall, but -a should sort everything in the right order so dependencies
are uninstalled in order.
I find that 'pkg_delete -af' gives more reliable results. Agreed, it
should not be
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.
The problem i had was that gdm, gnome didnt start after the upgrade.
So i tried to build the gnome and gdm thing again via
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 cross a major OS release boundary, you need to
On Sat, 19 May 2012 19:43:09 +0100, RW 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
On 19/05/2012 20:08, Beastie-Boy wrote:
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.
Ahah! That is exactly the situation where you do want to remove all your
installed ports and rebuild them.
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
On 19/05/2012 21:09, Polytropon wrote:
Sorry i cant paste logs, bsd is running on another machine.
You can use SSH to log into the BSD machine and cut text from
the session. :-)
Or just run:
% script /tmp/session.log
Do all your updating tasks, then type 'exit' when done, and you'll get
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
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