From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Dec 10 22:07:55 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3279D70F7 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:07:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-in7.apple.com (mail-out7.apple.com [17.151.62.29]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB7EC1FBF for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:07:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay2.apple.com (relay2.apple.com [17.128.113.67]) by mail-in7.apple.com (Apple Secure Mail Relay) with SMTP id DD.C3.27014.9B7F9665; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:07:53 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11973e16-f793c6d000006986-92-5669f7b9be5a Received: from [17.149.226.23] (Unknown_Domain [17.149.226.23]) (using TLS with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by relay2.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with SMTP id BB.59.03545.8B7F9665; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:07:52 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.2 \(3112\)) Subject: Re: Want to reinstall, preserving existing configuration From: Charles Swiger In-Reply-To: <20151210132202.Horde.L-UfLdFlWeCANimy0-JWSdg@mail.parts-unknown.org> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:07:52 -0800 Cc: FreeBSD - Message-Id: <8D80BCFB-74EF-447F-8850-88544668BDCA@mac.com> References: <20151210132202.Horde.L-UfLdFlWeCANimy0-JWSdg@mail.parts-unknown.org> To: David Benfell X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3112) X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFjrMLMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUi2FDorLvze2aYwZ+bjBats/6yWLz8uonF gcljxqf5LB7Xu6YwBTBFcdmkpOZklqUW6dslcGXc74sraBOqeH5pClsD4z3+LkZODgkBE4lF x1YzQthiEhfurWfrYuTiEBLYyyix/+BBVpiildeaWCASU5kkzq26zgySYBZIkLi97zBYEa+A nsSJVbvBbGEBR4lXc/uYuhg5ONgE1CQmTOQBMTkFgiRu/vMGqWARUJWYd+MwI8QUXYmmG28Z IaZYSby68oEVpFxIIFDi0FkLkLAIUMmWVYfYIa6Rldi3YQHYmRICHWwSN1cdZp3AKDgLyUGz kBwEEdeWWLbwNfMsoLHMAjoSkxcyogpD2B/PH2FawMi2ilEoNzEzRzczz1wvsaAgJ1UvOT93 EyMo1Kfbie1gfLjK6hCjAAejEg/vC+nMMCHWxLLiytxDjNIcLErivLZPgUIC6YklqdmpqQWp RfFFpTmpxYcYmTg4pRoY5949n/Ll4vu8D68/m/6Ufv7G9W7l/Bm/jmyVbZK6pxRb8nJhYuOE iV5s14SFH/I/5NY2ZLv0lP3DQdHQe3dPt/C+4fzJarq44ftc86TSZ7+MZpvzTXU+y3VuwbLf 8TsSdgeKJT0LjNPjbN32TrPl99xv+64a9os6Xtw8ybz6UIP2vKbLxmGZz5RYijMSDbWYi4oT Ad3pHxZWAgAA X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFtrGLMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUiOPWRuO6O75lhBjs2Wlu0zvrLYvHy6yYW ByaPGZ/ms3hc75rCFMAUxWWTkpqTWZZapG+XwJVxvy+uoE2o4vmlKWwNjPf4uxg5OSQETCRW XmtigbDFJC7cW8/WxcjFISQwlUni3KrrzCAJZoEEidv7DrOC2LwCehInVu0Gs4UFHCVeze1j 6mLk4GATUJOYMJEHxOQUCJK4+c8bpIJFQFVi3o3DjBBTdCWabrxlhJhiJfHqygdWkHIhgUCJ Q2ctQMIiQCVbVh1ih7hGVmLfhgVsExj5ZiG5YRaSGyDi2hLLFr5mngU0iVlAR2LyQkZUYQj7 4/kjTAsY2VYxChSl5iRWGuklFhTkpOol5+duYgSFZkOh8w7GY8usDjEKcDAq8fC+kM4ME2JN LCuuzD3EKMHBrCTCK/8eKMSbklhZlVqUH19UmpNafIhRmoNFSZz3dFx6mJBAemJJanZqakFq EUyWiYNTqoHR6Aa/h8vuR2/TFmd+iS/sjHN+23rmg+LjaUVbtpvX8U26u0Bvb13L/DeTLEy/ sAnnJ18NXT1b7Q//hrMxbfPrCwubd+ws/HjocfK3tbq+f80W2l3pZ2w/cO2i0U77G3qfHj+q eBkp7Hp2Yeyb57a1btfCHNfs5qm5dSVvmmPzmwNz/WRXbFReqcRSnJFoqMVcVJwIAPAyHRxJ AgAA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:07:55 -0000 On Dec 10, 2015, at 1:22 PM, David Benfell = wrote: [ ... ] > Because there's nothing else terribly wrong, I'd basically like to = preserve the existing configuration. That includes ports and the build = options. Has anyone come up with a neat procedure for doing this? Certainly: take a backup. (If you knew your backups were working, you wouldn't worry about this = sort of problem again.) Regards, --=20 -Chuck