Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:19:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com Cc: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller Message-ID: <CAGH67wRtAxzg7DaR3rYVcnbLDOj7Uouvc9FusRwqTq%2BTQmN96A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110925182918.0f2193ff@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20110925082217.92E54106566B@hub.freebsd.org> <CAJ5UdcPYBn%2BQiyQ5j-_PABf1AHXi3BXKP%2BgjF3KEQmGZPv7VoA@mail.gmail.com> <20110925182918.0f2193ff@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Gary Jennejohn
<gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:30:49 -0500
> Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall:
>> >
>> > There is no upgrade function. How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation?
>> >
>> > For instance, user might have built many software applications from ports and not want to rebuild everything.
>> >
>>
>> I have the same doubt/question. If I update the system via the ports,
>> do I have BETA3/RC1? or do I have to run
>> # freebsd-update
>>
>> to get the current release?
>>
>> Also, like is suggested, if I update by any means, I will probably
>> have to delete && reinstall everything in the ports. Is there a way
>> not to do this?
>>
>
> I run HEAD (what's now becoming 9.0) all the time and only very rarely
> do I have to update ports because I updated world and kernel. I've
> been doing this for many, many years. Generally, only ports which
> are intimately tied to kernel sources, like virtualbox or the nividia-driver,
> are affected.
The easiest way to handle this is to use add the following lines
to your /etc/src.conf to automatically rebuild / reinstall the ports
when recompiling the kernel:
$ grep -r PORTS_MODULES /etc/src.conf
PORTS_MODULES= emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod x11/nvidia-driver
It's an undocumented feature that I'm going to file a PR for so
that it added to the documentation.
Cheers,
-Garrett
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