From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 15:36:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC1B106567B for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:36:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB398FC33 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:36:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vhoffman-macbook.lon.namesco.net (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m7BFaRVe038626 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:36:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <48A05C74.3070600@unsane.co.uk> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:36:20 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robert@webtent.com References: <1218458513.18845.15.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <48A03A26.1080001@unsane.co.uk> <1218463143.18845.19.camel@columbus.webtent.org> In-Reply-To: <1218463143.18845.19.camel@columbus.webtent.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Screwed up upgrade to 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:36:24 -0000 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