On Saturday 11 April 2009 17:20:56 Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/4/11 David Southwell <da...@vizion2000.net>: > > On Friday 10 April 2009 11:43:33 kime...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Paul Schmehl wrote: > >> > --On Friday, April 10, 2009 11:17:00 -0500 Paul Schmehl > >> > > >> > <pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com> wrote: > >> >> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING, if you want to upgrade to perl5.10, > >> >> you do > >> >> the following: > >> >> > >> >> Portupgrade users: > >> >> 0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety): > >> >> pkgdb -Ff > >> >> > >> >> 1) Reinstall perl with new 5.10: > >> >> portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.\* > >> >> > >> >> 2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl: > >> >> portupgrade -fr perl > >> >> > >> >> My machine got rebooted right in the middle of step 3. Is there a > >> >> way to > >> >> resume where I left off? Or do I just start over? > >> > > >> > Let me rephrase. I don't see a way in portupgrade to start over where > >> > I left off. However, pkg_info -R lang/perl* shows that all my ports > >> > depend on 5.10 and no ports are still depending upon 5.8. Is it safe > >> > to assume that the reboot happened after portupgrade had finished? > >> > >> Nope. With this info you can assume that step 2/3 worked. Not the step > >> 3/3. I dont know how to restart at the stage it was before reboot as I > >> dont use portupgrade. > >> Personnaly, as portmaster failed with some ports and abort the whole > >> update process, I wrote a simple sh script which loop over the packages > >> which need perl (got via the via pkg_info -R, need reordering > >> thought...), exec portmaster ${PKG}, and keep a list of which reinstall > >> succeed and which failed. > >> > >> Regards > > > > I hope it is not too far off topic but: > > > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this one: > > > > Stale dependency: bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 -> perl-5.8.9_2 (lang/perl5.8): > > can't convert nil into string > > > > > > My update to 10 seems to be OK except for this.. > > > > I cannot find its origin so do not know what to deinstall and reinstall > > > > It would also be great to get all bsdpan into the pkgdb with their > > origins.. is there any way to do that? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > David > > Perhaps you should start a new thread. > > Chris
Tried that last week to no avail So asmy question was vaguely on topic I had hoped someone might be able to contribute something useful!! No such luck!! Thank you for your contribution most helpful David _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"