On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:31:10 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 06:14:52PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote: > > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:14:52 -0400 > > From: Robert Simmons <rsimmo...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade? > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > > > it is easy to cvs or cvsup ports and get a whole slew of ports in > > > /usr/ports/distfiles, but too often, using portmaster [or another > > > tool], I'll have only one of two ports that fail because they are > > > either 1) broken, or 2) out of date. is there any way I can grab > > > just the ones that fail to compile? I'm down to fewer than 50 > > > ports. > > > and wedged. > > > > You don't want to have /usr/ports out of sync. You want to let > > cvsup/portsnap do it's thing. It's ideal to have the whole ports > > collection up-to-date. You may want to start with a clean slate and > > cvsup/portsnap a fresh copy of the ports collection if you think that > > something is amiss. You can make a backup of /usr/ports for peace of > > mind too. > > > > Also, can you please supply exactly what ports you're talking about > > and what commands you are running to upgrade? Error output for the > > ports you say are broken would be another good thing to supply. > > something in x11-toolkits/gtk20 blew up. SOOOO. > lolngstoryshrt, I rebuilt from scratch [[ from the very > beginning ]] around 2 hours ago. it Just died. here are > the last 20 lines:: > > > gmake[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20/work/gtk+-2.24.6/modules' > Making all in demos > gmake[2]: Entering directory > `/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20/work/gtk+-2.24.6/demos' > /usr/local/bin/gdk-pixbuf-csource --raw --build-list \ > apple_red ./apple-red.png \ > gnome_foot ./gnome-foot.png \ > > test-inline-pixbufs.h \ > || (rm -f test-inline-pixbufs.h && false) > failed to load "./apple-red.png": Couldn't recognize the image file > format for file './apple-red.png' > gmake[2]: *** [test-inline-pixbufs.h] Error 1 > gmake[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20/work/gtk+-2.24.6/demos' > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20/work/gtk+-2.24.6' > gmake: *** [all] Error 2 > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20. > root@ethic:/tmp# > > unless this port is known to be broken, I'll cvsup the ports > tree.
If you're using csup instead of portsnap, you can get "faster" updates of your ports tree (as portsnap transmits snapshots which are less frequently taken). In case you intendedly need to DOWNgrade a port (maybe because the newer version doesn't work anymore, like the xzgv image viewer), use the "portdowngrade" tool. As it as been mentioned, having an out-of-sync ports tree is not recommended and can lead to trouble. So for example, if gtk20 fails, remove its cruft ("make clean" for this port and maybe its dependencies; maybe also remove the distfiles it downloaded), and update via CVS some hours after the incident. It sometimes happens that the problems magically resolve. :-) It's recommended to restart port builds in a somewhat clean environment, that's why it sometimes really helps to delete files of a previous build. Are you using a port management tool (e. g. portmaster) or do you operate "on bare ports")? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ 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"