Re: Struggling mightily with port updates

2014-06-08 Thread Warren Block

On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Paul Schmehl wrote:


I upgraded two systems to 8.4 and ran portmaster -ad to update all ports.

Most of it worked fine, but I'm in docbook hell now. I also don't understand 
this:


=== All  (6)

=== The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed:
Upgrade en-freebsd-doc-43251,1 to en-freebsd-doc-44807,1
Re-install ruby-1.9.3.484_2,1
Install textproc/docbook-xml
Install www/mod_authnz_external22
Re-install docproj-2.0_2
Install print/ghostscript9

=== Proceed? y/n [y]

I just upgraded ruby:

=== The following actions were performed:
Re-installation of ruby-1.9.3.484_2,1
Re-installation of ruby19-bdb-0.6.6_3
Re-installation of ruby19-date2-4.0.19

So why does portmaster want to reinstall it?


/usr/ports/UPDATING shows manual steps that must be taken.  The 20140219 
entry talks about the DocBook ports.

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Re: Struggling mightily with port updates

2014-06-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On June 8, 2014 at 6:38:48 PM -0600 Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com 
wrote:



On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Paul Schmehl wrote:


I upgraded two systems to 8.4 and ran portmaster -ad to update all ports.

Most of it worked fine, but I'm in docbook hell now. I also don't
understand  this:

=== All  (6)

=== The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed:
Upgrade en-freebsd-doc-43251,1 to en-freebsd-doc-44807,1
Re-install ruby-1.9.3.484_2,1
Install textproc/docbook-xml
Install www/mod_authnz_external22
Re-install docproj-2.0_2
Install print/ghostscript9

=== Proceed? y/n [y]

I just upgraded ruby:

=== The following actions were performed:
Re-installation of ruby-1.9.3.484_2,1
Re-installation of ruby19-bdb-0.6.6_3
Re-installation of ruby19-date2-4.0.19

So why does portmaster want to reinstall it?


/usr/ports/UPDATING shows manual steps that must be taken.  The 20140219
entry talks about the DocBook ports.



I read that, but the uninstalls failed.  I ended up having to run down the 
dependency rabbit hole, uninstalling ports one at a time until the one 
depending upon them were all gone.  It's working now.


Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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