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On 17/06/2010 13:29:39, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote:
>> > If you wanted to try something, I would recommend downloading a
>> > 8.1-PRERELEASE snapshots and installing that.
>> >
>> > ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201006/
> That would probably be the fastest and easiest thing to do, but it
> feels like I'd be admitting defeat. And it would take forever to
> compile emacs again. I have an iso downloading now.
Uh -- you don't need to compile emacs again. You can package up what
you already have installed under 8.0: e.g.
# pkg_create -R -b emacs-23.2_2,2
which will create package tarballs for emacs and everything it depends
on[*] in the current directory. Save them away somewhere, similarly
save any relevant config files or other important data not part of the
pkg tarballs, do the reinstallaton, then reinstall from your saved pkgs.
So long as the system major version number is the same, you can apply
this to any re-installation of FreeBSD.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] Depending on how you compile emacs, this can be quite a large number
of packages.
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