Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:30:11 -0500 From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Source upgrade from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7-STABLE Message-ID: <e1bceb29595e9a4abba4361cd0792f5f@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47F73EF7.3040306@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <56fa92a7090e9529f0cb571cb2340aa5@gmail.com> <47F73EF7.3040306@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Apr 5, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Joshua Isom wrote:
>> I've looked back at a lot of the emails about upgrading a system from
>> 6 to 7, but all seem to contain some caveat or other, generally
>> ports. I want a "clean" system, but don't want to deal with backing
>> up, reformatting, and installing, not to mention reconfiguring
>> everything. Since by now many people have done it, what's the best
>> way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0 for the entire system, base and ports?
>
> Note that once you have the base OS updated, you can leave it running
> with the ports from 6.x for a while -- so long as you've still got the
> 6.x shlibs available everything will carry on working. That means you
> either have to install the misc/compat6.x port or you have to skip the
> 'make delete-old-libs' step at the end of the buildworld procedure.
> (Well,
> postpone it until the ports can be rebuilt.)
>
> ...
>
> Don't forget the 'make delete-old-libs' step at the end. You can
> probably
> deinstall compat6x similarly although there are some ports that will
> now
> require it -- diablo-j{dk,re}15 for example.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
I decided to go with the plan of listing all leaf ports and all
ports(install leaves first and then find out what's missing that I'd
want based on everything I had), then deleting all of them and cleaning
up some of the leftovers, and reinstalling the base and deleting the
old libraries to get a good clean 7.0 system. Only problem is when I
started rebuilding stuff, I think libtool found f77 and some of the
other 6.3 binaries that weren't deleted and things like gettext didn't
want to install. It seems as though either `make delete-old-libs`
needs adapted to include deleting binaries, or a separate target for
old binaries. I'm currently building up my ports tree, and it seems to
be working well now, so all the 6.3 binaries I found and deleted didn't
seem to hurt anything, not that they could run as libc.so.6 is gone.
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