From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 12 17:51:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86004106566B for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438938FC12 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from [85.173.17.30] (helo=moosi) by services.ipt.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1MFAuD-000FGV-02; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:51:09 +0400 To: Andriy Gapon References: <4A328B1D.3050703@icyb.net.ua> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:51:47 +0400 In-Reply-To: <4A328B1D.3050703@icyb.net.ua> (Andriy Gapon's message of "Fri\, 12 Jun 2009 20\:06\:37 +0300") Message-ID: <02853996@ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proper upgrade procedure from base to base X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:51:10 -0000 Andriy Gapon writes: > What is the proper upgrade procedure to go, say, from f7 to f8 or from f8 to f10 > (later)? > UPDATING says to follow instructions from 20070327, but those amount to "remove Have you read those instructions to the end? ;-) > old base port, install new base port". But then what about ports for xorg or gtk2 > or alsa lib? They do not seem to get updated following this procedure. This can be useful: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-June/006221.html > Is there an automated way to upgrade all ports that have different versions for > different bases? We have only one default linux base port per an OS version. So changing a base linux ports is not supposed to be rare. I'm not sure if an automated tool may be useful here. Said that I'm not aware of such a tool. WBR -- bsam