> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:59:27 +1100 > From: Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:43:25PM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote: > >time from ports because there are only small portion of precompiled > >packages. > > There should be a fairly complete set of packages for 7.0-RELEASE. > There can never be a totally complete set of packages for legal > reasons - the licenses on some ports do not permit them to be packaged. > > >This thing should be solved. > > Please offer some suggestions on how you would resolve the problem. > > >And If I upgrade the OS I dont want to recompile ports for that. > > You don't have to upgrade ports immediately. It's just that you can't > upgrade any single port without re-building everything - for reasons > that have been spelled out elsewhere in this thread. > > FWIW, the move to versioned symbols should (in theory) remove the > need to need to do a future complete recompile once you've rebuilt > all your ports against 7.x.
My laptop has about 1000 ports installed and, when I did the mass upgrade a week or two ago. I did it a bit differently from most recommendations. I deleted all of the directories in /usr/local except etc and a coupe containing locally built and install software. This really cleans up any cruft from /usr/local. :-) Next, I manually installed lang/ruby18 and ports-mgmt/portupgrade and did a 'portupgrade -afP'. Since the pkgdb was still in place, it knew which ports had been installed before I nuked /usr/local. I only had to build one big, time consuming port, jdk16. I also had to re-build about 8 or 9 ports (postfix and several multimedia ports) for local config reasons. I ran it over night, starting up at "quitting time", and it finished the first pass early the next morning. I installed jdk15 from the diablo package and built jdk16. Then I upgraded the ports which were dependent on jdk16 (about a dozen) from packages. All in all, this worked rather well, although issuing all those 'rm -rf /usr/local/AAAA/*'s is very disconcerting. -- 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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