Re: updating ports to HEAD

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Monday, April 01, 2013 a las 08:54:59PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió:
>
>> > Is there something in the base system of r235646 which would not allow
>> > to do so, i.e. which is to old for HEAD of ports?
>> >
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what you mean by  "update /usr/ports with SVN to HEAD",
>> since ports does not branch, so any time you "svn up /usr/potrts", it is
>> updated to head.
>
> I used the term 'HEAD' because the SVN command I have used was:
>
> # svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports
>
>> Any version of FreeBSD 8 or newer should work fine with
>> ports/head.  Note that some ports will need to be compiled with gcc as not
>> all will work with clang.
>
> thanks;
>
>>
>> Are you having a problem updating (or checking out) head or with some of
>> the ports after the update?
>
> the system in question hast around 1200 ports compiled based on the CVS
> checkout of ports on May 19 last year; I want to check if I could
> compile Ekiga out of its GIT, wich needs gtk+3.4.x and other recent
> stuff; I will just for a test rename /usr/local and /var/db/pkg, update
> the ports to 'HEAD' and compile them again to see if this would solve
> the problem and make Ekiga happy.
>

I hope for your sake that this machine is not open to the net with
many services, using year old ports/packages is a death wish in such
systems. In any case it's a good idea to update everything at least
every two months about.

-Kimmo