From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 21:09:04 2007 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 CA88116A420; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:09:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4AC13C4A5; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:09:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA8L8vFV015521; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:08:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F0D12B8FC; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:08:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:08:56 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20071108210856.GA70286@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , Matthew Seaman , Mario Lobo , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200711081455.39635.cesar@expresso.com.br> <200711081448.48390.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> <20071108183239.GA65453@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4733633E.2050800@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20071108195436.GA67970@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <47337256.8040805@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jI8keyz6grp/JLjh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47337256.8040805@FreeBSD.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Mario Lobo Subject: Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:09:04 -0000 --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:32:22PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> You don't need to delete all the ports in one go and then reinstall >>> them in another: running 'portupgrade -fa' will do the job. >> Port upgrade tools are not guaranteed to work perfectly in this >> situation. I tried doing an update with portmanager and ended up with >> some binaries linked against both libc.so.6 and libc.so.7! Some ports >> didn't even compile. >=20 > portmanager isn't recommended for use since it became abandonware a long= =20 > time ago and never reached maturity. If you (correctly ;) use portupgrad= e=20 > (e.g. -fa or -faP) then you will not have this problem. Dang, I meant portmaster, not portmanager. My bad. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHM3roEnfvsMMhpyURAuB0AJwMMOhLZD/Lyv6n57hoHk5azvcbwwCfSd1U qxEtsH+a2CYdcog39zyfKck= =SBF3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--