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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:08:56 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Mario Lobo <mario.lobo@ipad.com.br>
Subject:   Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
Message-ID:  <20071108210856.GA70286@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <47337256.8040805@FreeBSD.org>
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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/
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