On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 05:20:33PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > 2.) How do I rebuild the ports? > > > > Either you rebuild them by hand, one after another...
It kind of depends what kind of upgrade you are doing. When upgrading to another minor version (say from 8.1 to 8.2) no port rebuilds are necessary. When upgrading to another major version (e.g. from 7.x to 8.x) rebuilding all ports is usually necessary since there can be incompatible changes in e.g. system calls or libraries. The best way to to this is to make a list of all installed ports (e.g. with 'portmaster -L' or 'ls /var/db/pkg/'), delete all ports and re-install them. This is the only way to be _sure_ that all ports are rebuilt correctly. Using e.g. portmaster, portmanager or portupgrade for this can lead to problems later (upgrades failing for obscure reasons). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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