Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote:
I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for
some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are kernel
specific, like hal, so I wonder how to rebuild those ports automatically?

If you switch to another major version of FreeBSD, the best course is to
remove and reinstall all ports.

All ports depending on libc. Which is everything except scripts. Removal isn't
necessary. ports-mgmt/portmaster is one of those scripts that doesn't need
recompilation and can be used to force recompilation of all ports that need
it. Two for one deal.

I personally do make delete-old-libs /before/ recompiling ports this way,
because 1) I'm sure a port doesn't link to an old library and 2) the ports
that failed will complain more loudly.

However, when you're doing this for the first time, it's not a bad idea to
make a seperate slice for current and cross-install on there (the procedure is
documented in /usr/src/UPDATING). It's trivial to look at the stable slice's
/var/db/pkg and install all those ports, then copy over configuration files.
/home can be share without problems, providing you create the users again with
the same uid. The advantage is that you have a workable system to fall back on
whenever -current breaks something you need.
--
Mel
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