Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:30:32 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bartek Dedersen" <kyrosthebravekingofpersia@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating the ports from STABLE to CURRENT Message-ID: <cb5206420701190930x69b271dfya4455931b1ad29fd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f12137c40701190840s3d0e3df9ud37ed0e2a848c4b5@mail.gmail.com> References: <f12137c40701190840s3d0e3df9ud37ed0e2a848c4b5@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/19/07, Bartek Dedersen <kyrosthebravekingofpersia@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. "portupgrade -af", but I'd advise to "pkg_delete -af" (which has a custom to fail miserably, you might have to pkg_delete in portions of 50-200 packages) and reinstall everything you need later.
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