Re: Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports

2010-02-08 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 2/8/2010 12:30 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 08/02/2010 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> My ordinary practice with production FreeBSD machines is to: >> >> - Regularly (weekly), update the sources, rebuild and reinstall world >> and kernels. > > This implies you're running one of the -STABLE br

Re: Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports

2010-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk writes: > 3) If I do an in-place upgrade to 8.x (I'll probably wait until 8.1) >and immediately follow it with a 'portupgrade -arR', will I be >guaranteed that every port will be migrated to the very latest >8.x libs? You want 'portupgrade -af' instead. [You can add the

Re: Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/02/2010 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > My ordinary practice with production FreeBSD machines is to: > > - Regularly (weekly), update the sources, rebuild and reinstall world > and kernels. This implies you're running one of the -STABLE branches, rather than -RELEASE: updates to -RELEASE hap