From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Jul 20 10:23:03 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B38C088BB for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:23:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A5165687 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:23:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id D185AC088BA; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF643C088B9 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:23:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com) Received: from aibo.runbox.com (aibo.runbox.com [91.220.196.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9324B65686 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:23:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com) Received: from [10.9.9.127] (helo=rmmprod05.runbox) by mailtransmit03.runbox with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dY8bf-0002dX-53 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:22:55 +0200 Received: from mail by rmmprod05.runbox with local (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dY8bf-0008Pi-3m for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:22:55 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [Authenticated user (846156)] by runbox.com with http (RMM6); for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:22:54 GMT From: "Jeffrey Bouquet" To: "current" Subject: Critique this plan? Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:22:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: RMM6 Message-Id: X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:23:04 -0000 It seems I've a brick wall [too many ports to use pkg effectively ] -- [ = 3551 ]=20 and too many need ' pkg lock ' in ' v11 ' for ino64 fixes, 12.0-CURRENT, an= d quite a few others fail to build from ports, either compiler, so are also 'pkg lock ' o= r in a few instances binaries/trees copied from other installs, so that my DESKTOP can= continue running a if it were 2003 Microsoft based, vs 2004 Freebsd January based, w= here a reinstall seems in order OR, I should just sit and wait til 13.0-CURRENT and proceed = that way. .................. Meantime, how is the following as a workaround mv /usr/src /src-2017 mv /usr/obj /obj-2017 mkdir -p /usr/src mkdir -p /usr/obj cd /usr/src bw, etc .................... or ..................... [ clean install ] mount -t ufs /dev/gpt/2004root /mnt-root mount -t ufs /dev/gpt/2004var /mnt-var mount -t ufs /dev/gpt/2004tmp /mnt-tmp mount -t ufs /dev/gpt/2004usr /mnt-usr into which I surmise an installworld would fail as multiple DESTDIRS are i= ncluded.=20 ................. nullfs ? ............... Revert to all-in-one / system, no /var /tmp /usr? ............. or some new install=20 ............. None of these are plans as of yet, save proceeding without any upgrade wh= atsoever. I recall unpacking base.txz [etc] to fix a failing installworld in the recent past, = so any foolproof method of that would also be welcome. But I suspect much would remain undo= ne,=20 initial *proper* setup of /etc/mail, /etc/groups, as well as the loss of fi= ne-tunings I've done over the past 13 years or so, if it were done preplanned as a new-then= -rsync-the-old system-over-it sort of reinstall [ not looking forward to undoing years of= week-by-week this-rc that-rc fixups... newbie in so many areas who just copy-paste= d the work of others into this system, to excellent, usually effect. ]=20 ..............=20 Apologies for the email that went on three times longer [ more verbose ]= than I planned, sort of making its Subject: a misstatement of the body of the email. ...................... ...................=