Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:57:12 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211241951390.17779@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <50B14CAA.4000704@tundraware.com> References: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> <50B140AC.2000804@FreeBSD.org> <50B14CAA.4000704@tundraware.com>
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On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 11/24/2012 03:48 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> It is not however sufficient to get you a completely upgraded system: >> you will still have to re-install all of your ports. Otherwise, as you >> end up trying to upgrade ports by ones and twos over time, you'll end up >> with a complete rat's nest of contradictory shared library dependencies >> and programs crashing left, right and centre. > > So I am discovering. I moved the system to 9.1-PRE today with a > source compile. After I then did a make remove-old, the system > started complaining about missing libraries. So ... I temporarily > fixed this with appropriate /etc/libmap.conf entires. I am now > about to do a portupgrade -aARrvf to redo the ports. We'll see > how that goes... portupgrade -avf is equivalent (-r and -R are redundant with -a). Including -c helps to get the config screens out of the way up front.
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