On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:09:48PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > I would _strongly_ advise you to make a list of all your current ports, e.g. > with > 'portmaster -L >ports.list', deleting all ports and re-installing the ports > labeled as 'leaf ports' and 'root ports' in ports.list.
oops! already started! ;) > While portmaster/-manager do their best, they just cannot cover all the corner > cases, especially since some ports require extra action (e.g. perl!) There is > a good chance you'll end up with a big mess like binaries linked to both 7.x > and 8.x libraries or ports failing to build for mysterious reasons. Both have > happened to me in the past and are a major PITA to fix. As it happens, I noticed installed perl was 5.8 whilst latest is 5.10, so that was built before buildworld. I know what you mean, though. portmanager -u -f -l forces everything to be rebuilt and logs what it did. I then check the output when it's finished and manually rebuild what it can't fix. Not failed me yet, although before doing this I rebuilt portmanager. -- John _______________________________________________ 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"
