From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 9 15:55:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E50737B401; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 15:55:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mel-rto6.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-6.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EF043E3B; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 15:55:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rens.emmanuel@wanadoo.fr) Received: from mel-rta7.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.61) by mel-rto6.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24D4D013BE9E5; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 00:55:37 +0100 Received: from localhost (217.128.8.65) by mel-rta7.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DC7A381002D6018; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 00:55:37 +0100 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 00:58:51 +0100 Subject: Re: problem in upgrading to latest pkgs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: behanna@zbzoom.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG From: Emmanuel Rens In-Reply-To: <200211091856.gA9IuxD4079858@intruder.bmah.org> Message-Id: <31FC86A4-F43F-11D6-AC66-000A27AFC7DE@wanadoo.fr> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG actually it seems that some important files have even been deleted, for example there is no xvinfo anymore (this is typically a file you can't get anywhere except from the whole XFree pkg). So you are right I should start it over: but how? the base system seems to work well , I don't quite see myself remaking the world right now, and I have many config files I'd like to keep. How could I get rid of all packages and ports without touching the system and still be able to cvsup the ports after? > I am concerned that the original poster might have his ports setup so > confused now that it might be better just to wipe everything out and > start over. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message