On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Marko Lerota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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]
> 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!
>
>
> --
> One cannot sell the earth upon which the people walk
> Tacunka Witco
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Hi Marko,
you can always use the -w flag of portupgrade if interrupted it while
upgrading the installed ports:
------------
w
--noclean
Do not "make clean" before each build. See the -c option above.
------------
If you start the portupgrade again without -w then it will use -c by
default which means all your "inbuildproccess" ports are gone.
I don't know if -w is the clean way to resume from an interrupted
portupgrade, but i never had problems with it.
Well, ok you mustn't install any other port before you resume your
portupgrade that could confuse your system :)
The more clean and easy way to do a upgrade of your ports after
switching to another major release (I do it this way everytime):
#pkg_delete -fa <--- is much faster than pkg_deinstall
Then i get my Ports with the -P flag of portinstall. A few days ago I
did it this way after I jumped from 7 Release to 7 Stable.
It took me about three hours to get my x11-wm/xfce4, x11/xorg (yes the
complete xorg) and some other tools I need to work because the biggest
part of this ports were available as prebuild pkgs.
Try it this way,
Vincent
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