From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 03:38:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B3C16A41C for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:38:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9D443D49 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:38:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from reverse-213-146-114-24.cust.kamp-dsl.de [213.146.114.24] (helo=reverse-213-146-114-24.cust.kamp-dsl.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwpI-1DmkS61i9y-0001kt; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:38:30 +0200 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:39:10 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" X-X-Sender: root@www.pukruppa.net To: Nikolas Britton In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050627053708.H87019@www.pukruppa.net> References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-305601715-1119843550=:87019" X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:2446dbdf8275641f979193ced594c629 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: upgrading all ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:38:34 -0000 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 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--