Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:42:50 +0000 From: B J <va6bmj@gmail.com> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade 10.3 to 11.0 Message-ID: <CAP7QzkNZB7PrbtqKOXU5HJ-TCtkEe7n480Uj3KCYxGfn%2BEyf9w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21900172d2d5d5b4735453e274b5e86c.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <21900172d2d5d5b4735453e274b5e86c.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On 11/25/16, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > I am testing out the procedures to upgrade our existing FreeBSD hosts > from 10.3 to 11.0 using a bhyve guest configured for the purpose. I > have followed the instructions in the handbook/wiki to the best of my > understanding. I have a question about the last step however. > > One is supposed to reinstall all of the port pkgs one has installed. > Is there an automated way to do this provided by the FreeBSD > community; or is this a case of roll your own script? <snip> I have two machines, each with two drives with FreeBSD. I upgraded all of those systems to 11.0 recently and encountered the same thing. What finally worked for me was to upgrade the ports with: portsnap fetch portsnap extract portsnap update and the packages as well with: pkg update pkg upgrade It seemed that if I didn't do it, the upgrading process would overwrite or remove some of the files and libraries, resulting in things like Mate and Slim not working properly after I was finished. BMJ
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