From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 19 17:08:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F74A16A400 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:08:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kyrosthebravekingofpersia@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.240]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B3613C45B for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:08:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kyrosthebravekingofpersia@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so269900ana for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:08:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=fViRqULGKB0P13D1rSjRuzxXa7Xo89ZTLdKT3to3DedNQpMIQT0ucVTwNEObRDFa/kbGMfikedFBy3An5jirbZKeC9I/zEdQLLL2CwPMiMdPGztOLWA91I7BGLHi+YfLB59Brn5O3Xg6ip+QyLAaN8QM4RCxOtHS0Vcf/LzYwLw= Received: by 10.65.251.1 with SMTP id d1mr3236590qbs.1169224829730; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.157.15 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:40:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:40:29 +0100 From: "Bartek Dedersen" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Updating the ports from STABLE to CURRENT 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: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:08:44 -0000 Hi. I thought of trying out the bleeding edge and hoped my knowledge of BSD is high enough to handle it without any major problems. But: I installed FreeBSD-6.1 with the provided ISO package available on freebsd.org. Some packages were installed via pkg_add. After one week, the technician of the German telecommunication firm managed to visit me and put his finger on the cables in the cellar. Well, I thought of upgrading some packages with the ports-subsystem. It was pretty easy and nice. But then I wanted more and installed CURRENT from the CVS-source. Some buildworlds and kernel configuration later, I had a 7.0 Current. Ok, after a startx I got some error that libXmmu cannot be found. Ok, so I tried to recompile xorg-libraries. Ok, but there were lots of broken packages due to a filesystem breakdown after a kernel panic. Well, I tried to delete it with pkg_delete -f and it worked. Now, I am recompiling it from the updated ports-collection. Do I have to expect more failures and do I see an upcoming recompiling week due to broken libraries which do not work on CURRENT? Is it more useful to reinstall BSD from scratch and update it first? I know, CURRENT is not for productive use but I need something to put my fingers on. Maybe I will learn. Is there a command to recompile, deinstall and reinstall every installed package from the ports-system? If not, it will be hell. Bartek