On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Peter Beckman <beck...@angryox.com> wrote: > So I took on binary upgrading one of my FreeBSD servers today from > 6.2-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE. Many useful sites outline exactly how to do > this right, and they are mostly useful. > > Except when it comes to ports. > > > http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-freebsd-server-upgrades/ > > You get a few production servers with 200+ ports installed, and upgrading > could take several days and lots of headaches and a lot of babysitting. > > Is there some sort of automated way that someone smart has figured out how > to determine which ports are actually affected by the upgrade, so I only > have to upgrade a hopefully small subset of installed ports? Are ALL the > libraries upgraded during the OS upgrade modified in a way that breaks ALL > existing ports? My gut says no, but my brain says it's not trivial to > match the two together to limit the number of times you have to rebuild a > port. > > Is there a better way? Does portsnap or portmanager or portupgrade keep > track? What have I missed? > > Beckman
7.x and 6.2 aren't ABI compatible, so unfortunately no, you have to babysit a bit. -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
