Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:26:48 +0000 From: "J. Altman" <freebsd-announce@chthonic.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 8.1; Perl; and libgcrypt Message-ID: <20100729002648.GA1937@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20100728160025.GA91164@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <20100728152026.GA19185@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20100728160025.GA91164@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 06:00:25PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:20:27PM +0000, J. Altman wrote: > > Greetings... > > > > I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64. > > In case you're upgrading from source, do not forget to delete the > archivers/xz port before doing a buildworld, else buildworld will > fail. Yikes; thanks for the heads up. I do upgrade from source. > I would advise you to use portmaster; > > 1) portmaster -o lang/perl5.12 lang/perl5.10 > 2) portmaster p5- > > That worked for me. Hmm...well, I've used portupgrade since 4.3, and have only wondered if switching is a good thing. I've not made time to learn that process. > If you are running a GENERIC kernel, you could use > freebsd-update. That is probably the fastest. My kernel is not GENERIC; so I'll just do a bunch of updates. Thanks for the help, and best regards, Joe
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