Thread: FreeBSD portupgrade of 8.1 -> 8.2

I've got 8.1 running fine.  I want to upgrade to 8.2.  Problem is,
FreeBSD's portupgrade utility only wants to upgrade my existing 8.1
installation.

So I grabbed the latest ports collection, which includes
postgresql82-client and postgresql82-server.  Running 'make install' on
postgresql82-client gives me:

===>  Installing for postgresql-client-8.2.5_1

===>  postgresql-client-8.2.5_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
       postgresql-client-8.1.10

       They install files into the same place.
       Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
*** Error code 1

So I ran: pkg_delete postgresql-client-8.1.10

... and got this error:

pkg_delete: package 'postgresql-client-8.1.10' is required by these
other packages
and may not be deinstalled:
dovecot-1.0.0
kde-3.5.6_1
koffice-1.6.2_3,2
php5-extensions-1.1
php5-pgsql-5.2.3
postgresql-libpqxx-2.6.9
postgresql-plperl-8.1.9
postgresql-server-8.1.10_2

I seem to have hit a brick wall.  I tried installing postgresql82-server
first but it wouldn't do that without the 8.2 client library installed.

What's the portupgrade process in FreeBSD??

Steve Manes wrote:
> What's the portupgrade process in FreeBSD??

(Fixed.  The answer is to use pg_delete -f on the old package to force
the delete)

You can force the pkg_delete with -f (or maybe -F). You'll want to
delete all the postgresql (ie: postgresql-*) packages as well, and
then re-install them after you install 8.2.

On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Steve Manes wrote:

> I've got 8.1 running fine.  I want to upgrade to 8.2.  Problem is,
> FreeBSD's portupgrade utility only wants to upgrade my existing 8.1
> installation.
>
> So I grabbed the latest ports collection, which includes
> postgresql82-client and postgresql82-server.  Running 'make
> install' on postgresql82-client gives me:
>
> ===>  Installing for postgresql-client-8.2.5_1
>
> ===>  postgresql-client-8.2.5_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
>       postgresql-client-8.1.10
>
>       They install files into the same place.
>       Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
> *** Error code 1
>
> So I ran: pkg_delete postgresql-client-8.1.10
>
> ... and got this error:
>
> pkg_delete: package 'postgresql-client-8.1.10' is required by these
> other packages
> and may not be deinstalled:
> dovecot-1.0.0
> kde-3.5.6_1
> koffice-1.6.2_3,2
> php5-extensions-1.1
> php5-pgsql-5.2.3
> postgresql-libpqxx-2.6.9
> postgresql-plperl-8.1.9
> postgresql-server-8.1.10_2
>
> I seem to have hit a brick wall.  I tried installing postgresql82-
> server first but it wouldn't do that without the 8.2 client library
> installed.
>
> What's the portupgrade process in FreeBSD??
>
>
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On Nov 12, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Steve Manes wrote:

> Steve Manes wrote:
>> What's the portupgrade process in FreeBSD??
>
> (Fixed.  The answer is to use pg_delete -f on the old package to
> force the delete)

more elegantly,

portupgrade -Rrv -f -o databases/postgresql82-client postgresql-client

but you have to account for having to do the dump/restore in there
manually.  This will also force-upgrade all software depending on the
postgresql-client port (of which the server is one).