Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:30:36 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.x -> 5.x Message-ID: <20031105083036.GA1824@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20031105000011.F89236@fubar.adept.org> References: <20031105000011.F89236@fubar.adept.org>
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:08:24AM -0800, Mike Hoskins wrote: [...] > my question is, what's the best way to move 4.x packages to 5.x? i'm > not talking binaries of course, but reproducing the set of installed > packages from data in /var/db/pkg. i've read through the man pages for > pkg*, portupgrade, etc... and i'm thinking it may be simple enough to > just tar /var/db/pkg under 4.x, restore under 5.x, and then portupgrade > the tree. i've tried it with a couple ports and it works, but i haven't > tried it with an entire tree yet (more complex, with more dependencies to > keep straight). am i headed in the right direction, or is this a "bad > idea". :) this is just to get the "same set of binaries" back on the 5.x > system, merging configs, etc. is given it's own blurbage. Actually, this sounds like a very clever way of reproducing your ports setup. A "portupgrade -fRr \*" should do the trick. Wish I'd thought of it first.. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed
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