From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 20 11:43:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CFB1065670 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:43:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from artifexor@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com (mail-fx0-f210.google.com [209.85.220.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8FFC8FC1E for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so5992396fxm.43 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:43:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=TrhgmZXcb015+Eskd4DYUU5a/Q7k9vbpsDP9/FdaakU=; b=CRzJH+GJ8Bai4YYC9ptUhUFOJBLeGNpxqY981lgY3m0Vh9FzIsKTPteZSB3ejFsgGh qsZBJLsKs/bVCzRFs3EHNybq253uFt7pRk9vCPq39O//rA5aGixR04ZBo8oouB0TgF1f r9hU/kfsjm0PnkOcnv5QrPyDlt8qq0LuzN4uk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=KLMqzPOZJxCdGz+xCn5HSGtXXC0covgDFLcHpnJuImrcU3ndD/6Y63z6OFmXm7u4ds evSDf9ZleBJaiMICtefkzL2o2tTZs8OGcOW2OCajnKFUnZMUXLQ2yXl6gMBlgA/aHCgI N6kze7qhwmZLK8s4uQl6vVr5uvhfx0oVww0vk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.36.206 with SMTP id u14mr6168781bkd.138.1256038989648; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:43:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4ADCDA31.6090006@identry.com> References: <4ADB2F6F.8090107@identry.com> <4ADB75D8.5060404@identry.com> <4ADB8631.7000800@identry.com> <4ADB8AD3.5050009@gmail.com> <4ADB9C50.3000505@identry.com> <4ADBDD2D.5040709@identry.com> <4ADCDA31.6090006@identry.com> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:43:09 +0200 Message-ID: <9cbf3f070910200443x575ed24fq396aa9b113e06af0@mail.gmail.com> From: Artifex Maximus To: John Almberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: upgrading remote server 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: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:43:11 -0000 Hello! On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:29 PM, John Almberg wrote: > Okay! After a lot of googling/reading I successfully upgraded to 7.2, now > I'm trying to upgrade ports... > > I ran portmaster -L and got a long list of ports that need upgrading... > From my reading, it seems like the only way to do this is to go through the > list, one by one, and either (1) delete unused ports or (2) upgrade ports > that seem to need it. > > This is going to take quite a bit of time... am I missing something (other > than the fact that I should have been doing this all along?) > > That is a time consuming process indeed. Don't forget this is a major version update. You must upgrade all ports because there is possibly some change in library versions, API or any other part of system. Might use: portmaster -a -f which direct portmaster to process all ports and force rebuild of all ports. And again read /usr/src/UPGRADING and /usr/ports/UPGRADE for more information. Bye, a