Roland Smith wrote: > Port upgrade tools are not guaranteed to work perfectly in this > situation. I tried doing an update with portmanager and ended up with > some binaries linked against both libc.so.6 and libc.so.7! Some ports > didn't even compile. Yeah, I almost always delete packages during an OS upgrade and re-install them. Plus it justs makes me feel like the system is 'clean'
Really, you'd want to recompile everything anyway for the libc.so.6 -> libc.so.7 bump even if the port version didn't change. Yes, you can use /etc/libmap.conf and/or compat6x but this is just so much nicer. Also, when new releases come out, new packages are built, so -P is your friend and the packages will quite up-to-date with whats in the port tree since they were just built. > It took me about a day and a night to reinstall everything (415 ports), > mostly un-attended. But then I don't use OpenOffice nor java and fvwm2 > instead of Gnome/KDE. On another note, I generally do a pkg_add -r xorg to start that off Finally, I've taken serveral (~50) boxes from 5.3 -> 8.0-current via source updates with 0 problems. I've even gone down from 8-7.0BETA1.5 (that was a little painful) and then back to 8.0. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) o:703.549.2050x206 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com / http://ridecharge.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
