Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 20:43:25 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Will 10.3 clobber my ports area? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1seQB6XeZmEeJ8CfCQTkAuVu6M0f0mivE2ENoy_YaSMWQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1610051353510.41469@aneurin.horsfall.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1610041324000.41469@aneurin.horsfall.org> <CAN6yY1sb5vhOT2RpCs1H2C4_V4ymGayS4FqWXGp%2Bsc9OMAvAHQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1610051353510.41469@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Oct 2016, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > The ports will not be touched, but some will not run on 10.3 because of > > ABI changes in some shareable libraries. Most of the base system uses > > versioned symbols, so will work fine, but some, usually contributed > > code, don't. Ports that use them will need to be re-installed/rebuilt. > > [...] > > Many thanks; I'm a bit nervous, as this is my only FreeBSD server :-) > > I know I'm going to have trouble with the ports area anyway, because I > seem to have corrupted it somehow (during the switch between pkg* etc), > and I cannot seem to reload it from the CD (disc1). Is there a way to > fetch the entire ports tree online? > > Oh, this is for Joseph Mingrove: my mail log shows a message from you > (relayed via FreeBSD.org) but there's nothing in my mailbox about it (and > it certainly wasn't rejected). I guess I accidentally deleted it, so > could you please send it again? > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will > suffer." > Of course. You can use portsnap(8) to do this. See 4.5 - Using the Ports Collection <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html>; for details. It's quite trivial. This also will give you the latest versions of all ports. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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