On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: > > > Aloha > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a > > FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 > > 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > > This was a fresh install of 7 from a couple of months ago when it > > was -current. I have been updating > > src, ports, or both? It was a clean install. I backed up my data and did a new install from a snapshot iso. I reinstalled all 3rd party software from ports. > > > at least weekly since then. I csup'd and did the buildworld/kernel > > thing this past Friday. At that time I change from the generic > > kernel to a generic using -ULE. > > Assuming that you're now tracking RELENG_7, and assuming that you > installed the new kernel and world, did you clean out all the old > libraries and includes from before the branch? See above > > > When updating the ports over the weekend using "portmaster -a -u" > > the > > This isn't really relevant to your question, but I'd like to point > out that I think people are using the -u flag a lot more than they > really need to. Under normal circumstances once you're past the 'make > config' stage and the ports start actually compiling there won't be > any interaction required. In fact, now that the OPTIONS framework is > fixed if you already have options files for the ports you have > installed, and those options haven't changed, you won't even get > those screens to deal with. Noted > > > system would freeze at "Creating a backup package for old version > > pkg-glob". Where pkg-glob is whatever was being updated at the time > > of course. > > What happens if you just run 'pkg_create -b <portname > from /var/db/pkg>'? I strongly suspect that this is a problem with > your pkg_create binary, since that's all portmaster is doing in that > spot. If the pkg_create command failed then you would see an error > message and portmaster would exit. Okay, I just did that from my /root directory and it worked. p4# ls -l total 8528 drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Oct 9 11:46 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 8 19:31 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8668867 Oct 30 07:07 python25-2.5.1.tbz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 184 Oct 12 08:18 supfile.os > > hth, > > Doug Thank you for responding. Does this mean that I alone am experiencing this problem? One other thing, I replaced my video card last week with an NVIDIA card. I installed the nvidia port which brought in linux ports and compat5x. Could this have messed up my libraries? Robert > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"