> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:22:52 +0100 > From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Marko Lerota wrote: > > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>> Then the servers. Why should I reinstall all my databases and such? > >>> I always > >>> liked that FreeBSD base (OS) is separated from packages. And no > >>> matter what I do with the packages, my OS will always work. I don't > >>> want dependency > >>> hell like in Linux. Now you are telling me that my database might not work > >>> after upgrade to a new version. Is that it? > >> First, try to relax. > > > > Sorry, but I'm pissed off now, not relax any more. > > > >> portupgrade -faP requests to reinstall everything from precompiled > >> packages. It will only fall back to compiling them locally if the > >> package is unavailable (e.g. for legal reasons). > > > > It passed two days from portupgrade -faP, and it didn't finished yet. > > To be worse, I have to do it again because the PC had to be rebooted. > > So in the next 2-3 days I can sit with my PC and wait with him to > > finish the upgrade. It will be three days because of [EMAIL > > PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Are you connected via a modem or something? 2-3 days to download some > packages cannot be right if you have a decent internet connection. > > > And I have to pray the god that I don't have the power loss. > > Now apache and acroread doesn't work any more and I'm afraid that > > I'll find some other stuff that don't work too. > > > > So can anyone tell me this is not stupid??? Reinstalling all > > applications because of upgrade? This can be called new > > installation. Not upgrade. > > > > Now I'm thinking that It would be much easier that I backup my files, > > databases and other stuff and do fresh installation. But why???? > > So I can do the same thing when 8_0 comes out? > > > > This is the worst thing that I found about FreeBSD for now. > > This have to be changed or fixed somehow, because the upgrade > > is not possible if you have lots of ports installed, and > > certainly can't be called upgrade! > > > > I'm sorry you feel that way, but you haven't understood the explanations > that you have been given already.
Or, is the system failing to retrieve the packages and failing over to building the ports? This would take a long time! I always tee the output of portupgrade to a file so, if it dies in the middle, it's pretty easy to pick up where it left off and not re-build everything twice. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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