• Recovering Update Ability

    From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 1 00:36:46 2022
    So...my synth capabilities were de facto lost when the ports tree moved to git since my typical application update procedure was

    svn update
    synth status
    synth prepare-system
    pkg upgrade -r Synth

    I have subsequently done the conservative OS upgrade from 11.4 to 12.3
    but the DVD was geared to imposing a fresh install,so I am left porting
    things over from a backup and haven't gotten everything running.

    Now that I'm on an OS version that presumes the git ports tree,
    what is the way to download an update from git to /usr/ports?

    synth is not building because the desired snapshot of ncurses
    can not be found (and my backup somehow lacks /usr/ports/distfiles).
    Trying a make install of ncurses likewise can't find that snapshot.
    What's to be done?

    pkg update appears to finally be working but it complains about
    the emptiness of the "up to date" Synth repository.
    ncurses has no update from that snapshot,apparently.

    My startx file complains that DRM has to be over version 3
    to work with xorg and doesn't complete.

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Fri Sep 2 17:58:53 2022
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

    So...my synth capabilities were de facto lost when the ports tree moved to git
    since my typical application update procedure was

    svn update
    synth status
    synth prepare-system
    pkg upgrade -r Synth

    I have subsequently done the conservative OS upgrade from 11.4 to 12.3
    but the DVD was geared to imposing a fresh install,so I am left porting things over from a backup and haven't gotten everything running.

    Now that I'm on an OS version that presumes the git ports tree,
    what is the way to download an update from git to /usr/ports?

    synth is not building because the desired snapshot of ncurses
    can not be found (and my backup somehow lacks /usr/ports/distfiles).
    Trying a make install of ncurses likewise can't find that snapshot.
    What's to be done?

    pkg update appears to finally be working but it complains about
    the emptiness of the "up to date" Synth repository.
    ncurses has no update from that snapshot,apparently.


    [deleted obsolete point though startx fails on other issues now]

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sat Sep 3 02:34:18 2022
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

    So...my synth capabilities were de facto lost when the ports tree moved to git
    since my typical application update procedure was

    svn update
    synth status
    synth prepare-system
    pkg upgrade -r Synth

    I have subsequently done the conservative OS upgrade from 11.4 to 12.3
    but the DVD was geared to imposing a fresh install,so I am left porting
    things over from a backup and haven't gotten everything running.

    Now that I'm on an OS version that presumes the git ports tree,
    what is the way to download an update from git to /usr/ports?

    THIS REMAINS KEY.


    synth is not building because the desired snapshot of ncurses
    can not be found (and my backup somehow lacks /usr/ports/distfiles).
    Trying a make install of ncurses likewise can't find that snapshot.
    What's to be done?

    I was able to move some more files/directories from backups and got
    synth to run on the ports tree from the 12.3 DVD but I can't use it to
    update its repository further unless I can update ports.

    I used pkg install to bring ncurses (I think NOT that snapshot)
    and synth did build from ports.

    pkg update appears to finally be working but it complains about
    the emptiness of the "up to date" Synth repository.
    ncurses has no update from that snapshot,apparently.


    [deleted obsolete point though startx fails on other issues now]

    Got startx to run but my browsers still fail to load XPCOM.

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sat Sep 3 07:15:48 2022
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

    So...my synth capabilities were de facto lost when the ports tree moved to git
    since my typical application update procedure was

    svn update
    synth status
    synth prepare-system
    pkg upgrade -r Synth

    I have subsequently done the conservative OS upgrade from 11.4 to 12.3
    but the DVD was geared to imposing a fresh install,so I am left porting
    things over from a backup and haven't gotten everything running.

    Now that I'm on an OS version that presumes the git ports tree,
    what is the way to download an update from git to /usr/ports?

    THIS REMAINS KEY.

    (the Handbook's instructions for installing via git do NOT appear
    to work for using git to update what you installed from the DVD).

    synth is not building because the desired snapshot of ncurses
    can not be found (and my backup somehow lacks /usr/ports/distfiles).
    Trying a make install of ncurses likewise can't find that snapshot.
    What's to be done?

    I was able to move some more files/directories from backups and got
    synth to run on the ports tree from the 12.3 DVD but I can't use it to
    update its repository further unless I can update ports.

    I used pkg install to bring ncurses (I think NOT that snapshot)
    and synth did build from ports.

    pkg update appears to finally be working but it complains about
    the emptiness of the "up to date" Synth repository.
    ncurses has no update from that snapshot,apparently.


    [deleted obsolete point though startx fails on other issues now]

    Got startx to run but my browsers still fail to load XPCOM.

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sat Sep 3 23:17:05 2022
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

    So...my synth capabilities were de facto lost when the ports tree moved to git
    since my typical application update procedure was

    svn update
    synth status
    synth prepare-system
    pkg upgrade -r Synth

    I have subsequently done the conservative OS upgrade from 11.4 to 12.3 >>>> but the DVD was geared to imposing a fresh install,so I am left porting >>>> things over from a backup and haven't gotten everything running.

    Now that I'm on an OS version that presumes the git ports tree,
    what is the way to download an update from git to /usr/ports?

    THIS REMAINS KEY.

    (the Handbook's instructions for installing via git do NOT appear
    to work for using git to update what you installed from the DVD).

    How do you use what's at the git repository to update what is
    installed from the DVD??

    synth is not building because the desired snapshot of ncurses
    can not be found (and my backup somehow lacks /usr/ports/distfiles).
    Trying a make install of ncurses likewise can't find that snapshot.
    What's to be done?

    I was able to move some more files/directories from backups and got
    synth to run on the ports tree from the 12.3 DVD but I can't use it to
    update its repository further unless I can update ports.

    I used pkg install to bring ncurses (I think NOT that snapshot)
    and synth did build from ports.

    pkg update appears to finally be working but it complains about
    the emptiness of the "up to date" Synth repository.
    ncurses has no update from that snapshot,apparently.


    [deleted obsolete point though startx fails on other issues now]

    Got startx to run but my browsers still fail to load XPCOM.

    For firefox-esr this now refines to

    XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so: /usr/local/lib/libGL-NVIDIA.so.1: Undefined symbol "nv020glcore"
    Couldn't load XPCOM.

    This is firefox-esr 91.13 installed by pkg after make install from
    ports hung on some dependency issues.

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sun Sep 4 03:15:29 2022
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

    So...my synth capabilities were de facto lost when the ports tree moved to git
    since my typical application update procedure was

    svn update
    synth status
    synth prepare-system
    pkg upgrade -r Synth

    I have subsequently done the conservative OS upgrade from 11.4 to 12.3 >>>>> but the DVD was geared to imposing a fresh install,so I am left porting >>>>> things over from a backup and haven't gotten everything running.

    Now that I'm on an OS version that presumes the git ports tree,
    what is the way to download an update from git to /usr/ports?

    THIS REMAINS KEY.

    (the Handbook's instructions for installing via git do NOT appear
    to work for using git to update what you installed from the DVD).

    How do you use what's at the git repository to update what is
    installed from the DVD??

    ??

    synth is not building because the desired snapshot of ncurses
    can not be found (and my backup somehow lacks /usr/ports/distfiles). >>>>> Trying a make install of ncurses likewise can't find that snapshot.
    What's to be done?

    I was able to move some more files/directories from backups and got
    synth to run on the ports tree from the 12.3 DVD but I can't use it to
    update its repository further unless I can update ports.

    I used pkg install to bring ncurses (I think NOT that snapshot)
    and synth did build from ports.

    pkg update appears to finally be working but it complains about
    the emptiness of the "up to date" Synth repository.
    ncurses has no update from that snapshot,apparently.


    [deleted obsolete point though startx fails on other issues now]

    Got startx to run but my browsers still fail to load XPCOM.

    For firefox-esr this now refines to

    XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so: /usr/local/lib/libGL-NVIDIA.so.1: Undefined symbol "nv020glcore"
    Couldn't load XPCOM.

    This is firefox-esr 91.13 installed by pkg after make install from
    ports hung on some dependency issues.

    I added some more ports and PRESTO!...it works.
    But Seamonkey 2.53.7 (which I depend on to handle graphical
    mail though my primary client is alpine) still "Couldn't load XPCOM".

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Mon Sep 5 07:44:55 2022
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

    So...my synth capabilities were de facto lost when the ports tree moved to git
    since my typical application update procedure was

    svn update
    synth status
    synth prepare-system
    pkg upgrade -r Synth

    I have subsequently done the conservative OS upgrade from 11.4 to 12.3 >>>>>> but the DVD was geared to imposing a fresh install,so I am left porting >>>>>> things over from a backup and haven't gotten everything running.

    Now that I'm on an OS version that presumes the git ports tree,
    what is the way to download an update from git to /usr/ports?

    THIS REMAINS KEY.

    (the Handbook's instructions for installing via git do NOT appear
    to work for using git to update what you installed from the DVD).

    How do you use what's at the git repository to update what is
    installed from the DVD??

    ??

    Tackled this by renaming /usr/ports to ports12.3dvd to make room for clone.

    synth is not building because the desired snapshot of ncurses
    can not be found (and my backup somehow lacks /usr/ports/distfiles). >>>>>> Trying a make install of ncurses likewise can't find that snapshot. >>>>>> What's to be done?

    I was able to move some more files/directories from backups and got
    synth to run on the ports tree from the 12.3 DVD but I can't use it to >>>> update its repository further unless I can update ports.

    I used pkg install to bring ncurses (I think NOT that snapshot)
    and synth did build from ports.

    pkg update appears to finally be working but it complains about
    the emptiness of the "up to date" Synth repository.
    ncurses has no update from that snapshot,apparently.


    [deleted obsolete point though startx fails on other issues now]

    Got startx to run but my browsers still fail to load XPCOM.

    For firefox-esr this now refines to

    XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so:
    /usr/local/lib/libGL-NVIDIA.so.1: Undefined symbol "nv020glcore"
    Couldn't load XPCOM.

    This is firefox-esr 91.13 installed by pkg after make install from
    ports hung on some dependency issues.

    I added some more ports and PRESTO!...it works.
    But Seamonkey 2.53.7 (which I depend on to handle graphical
    mail though my primary client is alpine) still "Couldn't load XPCOM".

    THIS REMAINS AN OUTSTANDING ISSUE!

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)