Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:36:20 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: robert@webtent.com Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Screwed up upgrade to 7.0 Message-ID: <48A05C74.3070600@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1218463143.18845.19.camel@columbus.webtent.org> References: <1218458513.18845.15.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <48A03A26.1080001@unsane.co.uk> <1218463143.18845.19.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
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Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:09 +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > >> Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at... >>> >>> http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html >>> >>> I ran the install a second time and it completed before the next to the >>> last step including 'portupgrade -af' was completed. I went back and ran >>> the next to the last step, but still, all my packages complain of >>> missing shared libraries. Is there any way to get everything rebuilt, >>> saving me a complete reinstall? Fortunately, I am doing this on a test >>> box. >>> >>> >>> >> Try installing misc/compat6x as a stopgap? >> >> > > Sweet! Thank you very much, all services started. Now, how do I proceed > with my upgrade to 7.0? Do I just rebuild all now and it will update to > the 7.0 libraries and then how to undo COMPAT_FREEBSD6? > > As you upgrade the ports they will link against the new verson of the libraries, once you're certain you dont need them any more you can just pkg_delete the compat6x package. You can use something like pkg_libchk from the sysutils/bsdadminscripts to look check whats still compiled againt the compat libs. Vince
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