From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 29 00:26:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905661065676 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:26:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-announce@chthonic.com) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (mx.freeshell.org [192.94.73.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B22B8FC08 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:ja@sdf.lonestar.org [192.94.73.15]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6T0QnUG020353; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:26:49 GMT Received: (from ja@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.4/8.12.8/Submit) id o6T0QmkK027933; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:26:48 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: sdf.lonestar.org: ja set sender to freebsd-announce@chthonic.com using -f Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:26:48 +0000 From: "J. Altman" To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20100729002648.GA1937@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <20100728152026.GA19185@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20100728160025.GA91164@slackbox.erewhon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100728160025.GA91164@slackbox.erewhon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 8.1; Perl; and libgcrypt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "J. Altman" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:26:50 -0000 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