From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 01:14:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D021065674 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:14:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358488FC0C for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from x220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.75]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q5E1EdGn018214; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:14:41 -0600 From: Erich To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:14:30 +0700 Message-ID: <1359272.gCyT45lP5v@x220.ovitrap.com> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <29122915.NDnaqcIOs3@x220.ovitrap.com> <1443905.ZHsCDgXC9N@x220.ovitrap.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: Why are you NOT using FreeBSD --> an example and a solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:14:42 -0000 Hi, On 13 June 2012 17:21:30 Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Erich wrote: > > On 13 June 2012 0:20:16 Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:53:04AM +0700, Erich wrote: > I strongly recommend that you install ports-mgmt/portmaster (if you I use portupgrade for upgrades. It should lead to the same result. > have not done so) and read the man page (YES! You really need to read > it all!) and note the example for re-installing all ports. It will > assure that all ports are cleanly re-installed. > > I do admit that I don't delete /usr/local/*, but I do get rid of most > everything in it like bin, lib, include (especially important), > libexec, libdata, info, modules, man, and so on. (Almost abbreviated > "and so on" to "etc which would have triggered much hilarity and some > keyboard smashing!) I never install anything of my own in /usr/local, > but use /usr/opt for that. > I never did this. It is a good idea as it really cleans the system and you have your own stuff outside the third-party stuff. > If you do it as suggested, you should end up with a very clean, updated system. > I did not want to upgrade it. I just wanted a fast solution to have FreeBSD running and than start from scratch. This starting from real scratch did not work. It seems that your solution would also solved the problem. I never thought of this. Erich