Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:51:12 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Marc "UBM" Bocklet <ubm@u-boot-man.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of 7.0 Message-ID: <p06240801c2b751e62c70@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <p06240800c2b70f7a9aeb@[128.113.24.47]> References: <8cdf6c720707070710k2b7e030v37683e460d983bf9@mail.gmail.com> <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org> <20070708132545.5604cbe9.ubm@u-boot-man.de> <p06240800c2b70f7a9aeb@[128.113.24.47]>
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At 6:07 PM -0400 7/8/07, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 1:25 PM +0200 7/8/07, Marc "UBM" Bocklet wrote:
>>
>>I'd like to do some testing, but I'm a little bit afraid of the upgrade
>>procedure 6.2-stable to -current. Is it possible to do a simple upgrade
>>if I follow the guidelines in UPGRADE or are there any hidden caveats?
>>(like "you've to recompile all installed ports", etc. :-))
>
>For what it's worth, I just recently upgraded one of my i386 machines.
>I first upgraded to the latest snapshot of 6.2-stable, and then I went
>from there to 7.x-current. I just did that on Friday, so I can't say
>that I've tested everything yet. But so far I haven't had any problems.
Okay, I just hit one non-obvious problem. On the system I had
upgraded, 'portupgrade' was out-of-date, but 'ruby' had already been
updated before the switch to 7.x-current. Portupgrade *was* working,
but then I tried to upgrade it and it stopped working. Lots of errors,
and then a program-interrupt while trying to do 'pkgdb -fu'.
On a hunch, I did:
cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18
make deinstall
make
make install && make clean
and then portupgrade went back to working fine. So, there might be
some cases where you'll have to build a few ports even though they
are already up-to-date.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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