From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 6 13:46:46 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F02DAE075 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:46:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72A206FE63 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:46:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id v66DkYZf090557 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 6 Jul 2017 07:46:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id v66DkYxk090554; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 07:46:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 07:46:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Baho Utot cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD did it again (still) In-Reply-To: <3cbeca30-8801-d800-edcb-f64ea2f079e0@columbus.rr.com> Message-ID: References: <27b3c757-1f00-a033-03f6-303a82ab65f2@columbus.rr.com> <3ce31ee2-5e35-d31c-71ca-dc95ece2dd61@intersonic.se> <020431a6-1a7d-d80e-0725-585c21f3ef27@columbus.rr.com> <563b14d5-ebfb-62b6-28ac-3ebbd663d067@intersonic.se> <8c1bb853-5eb0-4fae-ee26-5ff4684c2b3a@saunalahti.fi> <1499345128.3276.2.camel@gmail.com> <3cbeca30-8801-d800-edcb-f64ea2f079e0@columbus.rr.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (BSF 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 06 Jul 2017 07:46:34 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:46:46 -0000 On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, Baho Utot wrote: > Well FYI the upgrade base 10.1 to 11.0-p10 when as expected. Update the ports > to the current quarterly was a tragic happening. I have done this before > upgrade a desktop from 10.3 to 11.0-p0 then to 11.0-p9. Again the ports just > did not work as it resulted in a broken desktop each time. I started using > the quarterly ports branch thinking I get some stablilty. No stability to be > found. Should I user be able to update without going thru a weeks worth of > debugging? I think that is not too much to ask. It might or might not be obvious, but after going from FreeBSD 10 to 11 all ports must be reinstalled. It is not possible to upgrade only some ports without mysterious breakages.