From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 25 18:19:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9ED106564A for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:19:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF1F8FC13 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:19:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so9111893qyk.13 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:19:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HS/usZtKgMjwNJIGfb/2/nwP5qExc+e/82PzMeE40rM=; b=WtXFNrrXcdzKpKIvHpxYbfohYh6j79g5ckAVo9v+Q9AiH8C9wRo23EoDfGc3vJVdnW KsENofyz0HhLyUDllyQ1Pn7egprutwvDSnpq9Fj5gcIsAklk4i1BVXve+PJkVwI1mAHE L8AKY0+3ORmDtYbdYlL1fyy8U96/JnmZ79Uhs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.217.137 with SMTP id hm9mr4388770qab.124.1316974761117; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.74.82 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:19:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110925182918.0f2193ff@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20110925082217.92E54106566B@hub.freebsd.org> <20110925182918.0f2193ff@ernst.jennejohn.org> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:19:21 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Thomas Mueller , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Antonio Olivares Subject: Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:19:22 -0000 On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:30:49 -0500 > Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> > More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: >> > >> > There is no upgrade function. =A0How 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 po= rts and not want to rebuild everything. >> > >> >> I have the same doubt/question. =A0If I update the system via the ports, >> do I have BETA3/RC1? =A0or 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. =A0Is 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. =A0I've > been doing this for many, many years. =A0Generally, only ports which > are intimately tied to kernel sources, like virtualbox or the nividia-dri= ver, > 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=3D 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