upgrade frenzy

[Yves de Champlain]

Le 06-09-29 à 11:23, Daniel J. Luke a écrit :

> On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Yves de Champlain wrote:
>> I have a few problems with port upgrade.
>>
>> First, why does it uninstall ports.  Isn't it supposed to just  
>> deactivate old ports ?
>
> it uninstalls if you use -f
>
>> Second, things get a little weird (just the last lines of "port -f  
>> upgrade pango") :
>>
>> Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
>> --->  Deactivating cairo 1.2.4_1
>> --->  Uninstalling cairo 1.2.4_1
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for pkgconfig
>> Error: No checksum set for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
>> Error: Target com.apple.checksum returned: Could not open file: / 
>> Users/Shared/dports/distfiles/devel/devel/devel/devel/devel/devel/ 
>> devel/devel/devel/pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: render  
>> pkgconfig xrender
>> --->  Unable to uninstall pango 1.14.2_0, the following ports  
>> depend on it:
>> --->    gtk2
>> --->    libgnomeprint
>> --->    gtk2
>> Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
>> --->  Deactivating pango 1.14.2_0
>> --->  Uninstalling pango 1.14.2_0
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for pkgconfig
>> Error: No checksum set for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
>> Error: Target com.apple.checksum returned: Could not open file: / 
>> Users/Shared/dports/distfiles/devel/devel/devel/devel/devel/devel/ 
>> devel/devel/devel/devel/pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: Xft2 pkgconfig  
>> xrender render cairo
>>
>> Ports get uninstalled one by one, following dependencies, but  
>> everything jams on pkgconfig because category is getting stacked  
>> up somewhere.
>
> Force with upgrade will force a rebuild of all of the port's  
> dependencies, and it looks like you're having failures building  
> pkgconfig.
>
> Basically, you probably don't want -f with upgrade.

Possible, but when everything just crash looking for libintl.3 after  
a gettext upgrade, is there any better way ?

yves