Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:39:10 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrading all ports Message-ID: <20050627053708.H87019@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a05062618273f9c36ec@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org> <ef10de9a05062618273f9c36ec@mail.gmail.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-305601715-1119843550=:87019 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/25/05, Erik N=F8rgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: >> >> portupgrade isn't suitable for upgrading the entire machine, even though >> you do recursive and Recursive. >> >> It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from >> ground up. And it is far more secure in not screwing up. >> >> I recommend writing down a list of apps you need to be happy, deinstall >> everything and then install those apps. Dependencies comes along fine, >> and then whatever remains can be installed as needed. >> >> Anyway, the worst that can happen is that you will screw up some user >> app's - ok this is bad - but your system won't require a reinstall :-) >> >> Cheers, Erik > > With Gnome, KDE, etc. I completely agree with you, portupgrade always > manages fudge something up. > > What are some easy ways to do this... lets say for example I updated > to gnome 2.12 what would be an easy (automated) way to remove all of > Gnome 2.10 and all of my GTK apps without removing KDE and my QT apps? You should download download the gnome upgrade script from=20 www.freebsd.org/gnome and use it. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany *=20 ********************************************* --0-305601715-1119843550=:87019--
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