Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:51:11 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade 10.3 to 11.0 Message-ID: <447538f0-3507-3baa-e993-3652aa4aa655@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAP7QzkNZB7PrbtqKOXU5HJ-TCtkEe7n480Uj3KCYxGfn%2BEyf9w@mail.gmail.com> References: <21900172d2d5d5b4735453e274b5e86c.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <CAP7QzkNZB7PrbtqKOXU5HJ-TCtkEe7n480Uj3KCYxGfn%2BEyf9w@mail.gmail.com>
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From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade 10.3 to 11.0
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On 2016/11/25 15:42, B J wrote:
> On 11/25/16, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions
> <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I am testing out the procedures to upgrade our existing FreeBSD hosts
>> from 10.3 to 11.0 using a bhyve guest configured for the purpose. I
>> have followed the instructions in the handbook/wiki to the best of my
>> understanding. I have a question about the last step however.
>>
>> One is supposed to reinstall all of the port pkgs one has installed.
>> Is there an automated way to do this provided by the FreeBSD
>> community; or is this a case of roll your own script?
>=20
> <snip>
>=20
> I have two machines, each with two drives with FreeBSD. I upgraded
> all of those systems to 11.0 recently and encountered the same thing.
> What finally worked for me was to upgrade the ports with:
>=20
> portsnap fetch
> portsnap extract
> portsnap update
>=20
> and the packages as well with:
>=20
> pkg update
> pkg upgrade
>=20
> It seemed that if I didn't do it, the upgrading process would
> overwrite or remove some of the files and libraries, resulting in
> things like Mate and Slim not working properly after I was finished.
>=20
> BMJ
Uh -- if you're using pkg(8) with precompiled packages, why do you need
a ports tree installed?
Anyhow, when upgrading from 10.x to 11.0 you should re-install all your
packages. In fact, you don't need to do this *immediately* you upgrade
your base system -- everything will keep working even though the OS has
been upgraded beneath it.
However, you will need to reinstall everything eventually -- basically
before you start installing any new software or needing to upgrade some
packages to a new version.
That's because what tends to happen is that shared library ABI versions
frequently get bumped at a major version increment. Now, libc and most
of the important system shlibs are backwards compatible due to the use
of ABI versioning, but that isn't true of *every* shared library in the
OS. Plus the big problem comes when some program ends up trying to load
two different ABI versions of the same shlib into the same binary --
that's pretty much a guaranteed crash and core dump.
pkg(8) will upgrade almost everything for you if you simply run a 'pkg
upgrade' after your OS upgrade, but it may not catch everything that
needs to be reinstalled. Therefore the recommendation is to delete
everything and reinstall. The best way to do that is:
* Your backups are comprehensive and up to date and you've tested
that you can restore from them haven't you?
* Stop most daemons or other long-running software installed from
ports.
* Generate a list of everything you installed deliberately (ie. other
than things pkg needed to install just to fulfil dependencies)
# pkg query -e '%a =3D=3D 0' %n > /root/pkg-list
* Delete all of your installed packages. (Be careful about deleting
eg. bash if you use it as your login shell -- switch to /bin/sh or
/bin/tcsh that comes with the system for this)
# pkg delete -a
That will remove everything except pkg(8) itself. You should make
sure that /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin and other subdirectories
of /usr/local are now virtually empty. Config files under
/usr/local/etc should still be present unless you've not modified
them from the default versions supplied with the package, and web
content under /usr/local/www/* or postgresql database content under
/usr/local/pgsql/data should also be untouched.
* Re-install all the packages from the list you made earlier. pkg(8)
will automatically add all the packages it needs to fulfil
dependencies, which can be different to what you needed with the
previous version of the OS:
# xargs pkg install < /root/pkg-list
* Restart the daemons you stopped previously. Or it may be simpler
just to reboot and let the normal startup process bring up all the
daemons again.
Cheers,
Matthew
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