Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:45:41 +0100 From: Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de> To: Chris <chris@tellme3times.com> Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helpful wiki Message-ID: <62816E7F-7E51-4870-BE04-14AC4C5629E8@rlwinm.de> In-Reply-To: <5ebabf1a-4624-4fc1-91c3-a5757e5f2d76@tellme3times.com> References: <5ebabf1a-4624-4fc1-91c3-a5757e5f2d76@tellme3times.com>
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You forgot to delete the old libraries as last step of a major release upgrade. Most likely the switch from readline to editline. Finish your upgrade(s) and ports will build again. > Am 29.01.2025 um 23:06 schrieb Chris <chris@tellme3times.com>: > > Hi, > > > I came across https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase#setup while researching an issue I had where freebsd-update messed up a remote system. I should say I messed up the remote system by skipping releases. > > My issue was that I could no longer build ports because it would fail on devel/gettext-runtime. It would also fail on builworld and buildkernel. > > This is a production system which I thought I would need to rebuid. The system was upgraded to 14.2-RELEASE and I followed the wiki since I understood it would fix the issues I was having. > > After the "Six steps below are essential" I issued a "shutdown -r now" since very little else was configured. The system didn't respond to ssh. When I finally got to the location I saw that the system was running but had no Internet access because the /etc/rc.firewall was also replaced. > > I think that a note on the wiki to remind admins that rc.firewall may also need to be replaced, as a 7th essential step, when working on a remote system, may be helpful. > > > All said and done this saved me having to rebuild that system. Thank you. >help
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