From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 25 18:43:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E3A16A502 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:43:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (it.buh.tecnik93.com [81.196.204.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBAC43D48 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:42:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D722617610; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:42:57 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:42:57 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (Hans Lambermont) Message-ID: <20060425214257.6648ca76@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20060425182639.GC1351@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> References: <20060425154800.GB1351@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> <444E4624.6070509@vonostingroup.com> <20060425182639.GC1351@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Frank Laszlo , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libtool upgrade, entry 20060223 in UPDATING X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:43:00 -0000 On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:26:39 +0200 hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (Hans Lambermont) wrote: > Frank Laszlo wrote: > > > Hans Lambermont wrote: > >> The 20060223 entry in UPDATING suggests that the only reliable way of > >> upgrading a system is to remove all packages and reinstalling from > >> scratch. > ... > >> Next to that I'd like to hear from others how to accomplish this > >> all-ports upgrade on servers where one wants the downtime to be > >> minimal. > > > > portupgrade -afp isnt good enough? > > No, I want to have minimal downtime of the server. When using > 'portupgrade -afp' the system is in flux for almost a week. I want to > avoid that, and the only way I know how to avoid that is to use a > staging and build server (at least that's the idea). If you can build your ports on an non-production server, use portugrade -PP with modified package site in pkgtools.conf If you can afford that non-production server the fastest way is to delete all installed packages and build them all from scratch. -- IOnut - Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" BOFH excuse #17: fat electrons in the lines