Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:17:08PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
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.

Unfortunately, no port management tool deals completely with this
situation. The libc version isn't listed as a dependency, AFAIK.

I tend to make a list of all installed ports (with portmaster -L), wipe
all ports and remove any remains from /usr/local. Then reinstall all
ports listed as 'root ports' and 'leaf ports' in said list. This makes
sure you have a clean and consistent set of ports.

Roland
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