On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:05:13PM +0100, Rolf G Nielsen wrote: > > Just another note or two. > > If you decide to recompile the ports using portupgrade, portmaster or a > similar tool, rather than, as Pieter suggested, deleting them and > re-installing, make sure your ports are up to date before upgrading the > system. That way you are less likely to run into problems when > recompiling them after upgrading. > > After running mergemaster, do a make delete-old to remove any 7.2 > binaries remaining (libraries still in use won't be deleted). I usually > do this while still in single user, but I believe it can be done in > multi user as well.
Yes, this is good advice. When crossing even a minor version boundary, I do this, though it might be overkill with minor version changes. make delete-old and make delete-old-libs. I also run make delete-old-dirs and make delete-old-files Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will be easier to make portmanager rebuild everything in pristine mode. It will take a long time, but I accept this. Before this is done, I run the built-in routines in /usr/ports - clean out */work/* and distfiles. It's a fast machine though - shouldn't take too long. What I'm thinking about now is speeding up make. There are two cores in this CPU. Can I specify -j2 ? Is it one per core or more? I have also specified CPUTYPE?=athlon64 in make.conf. dmesg shows this: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (3006.83-MHz K8-class CPU) Can I specify -j somewhere? man make.conf doesn't cite examples of -j and I'm unsure where (or if it is even desirable) to put it. Any clues? cheers -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
