Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:31:14 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port upgrading Message-ID: <201009271031.14526.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100926170530.GA32854@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <4C9F74DD.6000009@nagual.nl> <20100926170530.GA32854@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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On Sunday 26 September 2010, Roland Smith wrote: > If you are upgrading to another major version of FreeBSD (say 7.x to > 8.x), make a list of all used ports with `portmaster -l >ports.list`. > Then delete all ports before updating the system. After the update, > re-install the 'root' and 'leaf' ports from ports.list. A more convenient approach is to run 'portmaster --list-origins' which produces a list of root and leaf ports which you can feed back into portmaster when reinstalling the ports, all the other dependencies should sort themselves out. There is a good description of this in the final example near the bottom of the portmaster man page. -- Mike Clarke
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