Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:09:00 +0000 From: Markiyan Kushnir <mkushnir@lohika.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mlerota@iskon.hr Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements Message-ID: <47E13A9C.9010401@lohika.com> In-Reply-To: <200803191047.m2JAl7YL070946@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200803191047.m2JAl7YL070946@lurza.secnetix.de>
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It's amazing -- I also did my recent 6.3->7.0 exactly this way. Running it as a desktop, WindowMaker, some of gnu apps. kde is at hand mostly for a couple of applications, but it works ok either. My case is much simpler, but I feel that it's worth of considering alternatives to portupgrade. I learned much from using portupgrade. Thanks, Markiyan Oliver Fromme wrote: > Hello Marko, > > I'm very sorry that you have trouble updating your FreeBSD > installation, but there are very good technical reasons to > update your packages, as others have already explained in > detail (i.e. library conflicts). > > When I updated my home workstation from FreeBSD 6 to 7, > I used the opportunity to clean up my installed packages, > which was long overdue anyway. > > First I saved the output from "pkg_info" in a file. Then > I edited it and removed everything that I don't need. > There was lots of superfluous crap in it, like ports that > I installed once out of curiosity but never continued to > use them, and ports that were installed as a dependency > once but aren't required anymore because the dependent > software is long gone. > > Then I did "pkg_delete \*", checked for left-overs in > /usr/local because not everything was removed cleanly, > and then installed the ports from my text file again. > I chose to compile from ports instead of installing > precompiled packages because the machine is fairly fast > (if you have a slow machine, installing packages will > be much faster, of course). > > It certainly went a lot quicker than if I had blindly > updated all ports without cleaning up. And now all of > my installed packages are guaranteed to be fresh and > up to date, and I only have the stuff on my harddisk > that I really need. > > Really, such situations where you should update all of > your packages is the best opportunity to clean up the > mess that has accumulated on your disk in a long time. > I recommend that everyone considers doing that, too, > instead of blindly running portupgrade. Of course, > the latter would work, too, but it takes longer and > will rather add to the mess instead of cleaning it. ;-) > > Best regards > Oliver >
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