Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:52:49 +0900 From: Choy Kho Yee <khoyee@tf7.so-net.ne.jp> To: Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should I rebuild all ports? Message-ID: <C5F2F2F5-17AF-11D9-A351-000A95BE58A4@tf7.so-net.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <747dc8f304100608224a4e880e@mail.gmail.com> References: <051585EC-17A8-11D9-A351-000A95BE58A4@tf7.so-net.ne.jp> <747dc8f304100608224a4e880e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2004/10/07, at 0:22, Renato Botelho wrote: > On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:57:19 +0900, Choy Kho Yee > <khoyee@tf7.so-net.ne.jp> wrote: >> I have just upgraded FreeBSD 5.3BETA6 to BETA7. >> According to /usr/src/UPDATING, some of the system >> libraries have been upgraded, and we should rebuild >> all ports if we want to use the new libraries. So, >> >> 1. should I rebuild all ports? (I think it should take one >> whole day...) >> 2. If I am to rebuild all ports, what is the command I >> should use? > > Take a look at this message > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-current/2004-October/ > 039354.html > > There is a script made by Benjamin Lutz that checks all ports need to > be rebuilded, so, you need to rebuild all these packages using > portupgrade -f packagename, or use the /etc/libmap.conf. Thanks for pointing me to the script!! I have saved the script to my computer, run it and it said that there are 60 packages that I should upgrade. I will upgrade them slowly when I have the spare time. However, I still don't get how /etc/libmap.conf can be used to work around this problem without rebuilding the ports. Thanks. --- Choy Kho Yee url: http://dotkoyi.infoseek.ne.jp/ blog: http://dotkoyi.blogspot.com/ "There are only 10 types of people in the world, i.e. those who understand binary numbers and those who do not."help
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