Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:10:45 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 -> 6.2 Message-ID: <20070518141045.490c80be@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20070517102831.O61920@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <20070516182846.C34584@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <464BCE1A.4020400@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20070517102831.O61920@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
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On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > You should be able to upgrade the system by a routine buildworld, > > buildkernel ... type operation, but beware that you will need to > > recompile all of your ports because of potential shlib version > > clashes. Ports from 5.5 will still work on 6.2, but later trying to > > update them piecemeal can lead to misery. > > I'm using portupgrade. So I will use the switches force a reinstall > and to act on everything that depends on the reinstalled port (-fr). > That wont do anything useful as there is nothing for the -r to work with after a base-system upgrade. The best way to upgrade all ports with portupgrade is to do it by datestamp like this: portupgrade -f '<2007-05-18 14:00'
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