From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 09:47:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D26316A417 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:47:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6764C43D4C for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:47:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8C9l6uR014504 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:47:07 +1000 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8C9l65U001364; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:47:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k8C9l6Pi001363; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:47:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:47:06 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Alex Burke Message-ID: <20060912094706.GC724@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT Subject: Re: Removing ports based on library dependency X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:47:10 -0000 --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-Sep-11 20:09:34 +0100, Alex Burke wrote: >I want to upgrade one of my FreeBSD boxes running 6.0 to CURRENT. I >know that this involves rebuilding ports so they link against >libc.so.7 and all associated libraries. I'll second Doug's suggestion of "delete the lot and re-install what you really want". I'll add a few comments though: A number of ports will build differently depending on the ports that exist when they are compiled (mozilla and xmms come to mind here). There are also a variety of ports where different versions are available that are functionally similar (so any version would satisfy dependencies). If you want to install particular subordinate ports (eg you have a MySQL database of a particular version), you should probably explicitly install them, rather than rely on root/leaf port dependencies. --=20 Peter Jeremy --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFBoIa/opHv/APuIcRArzcAJ9EXLHohHm4mAET+N4u7oKadj3EtgCcCRm/ difqn7iV3QqR95jxspagCPM= =arS6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR--