Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 13:02:42 +0000 From: Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org> To: rainer@ultra-secure.de Cc: pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exploring the updateability of FreeBSD 8.2 -> 12.1 Message-ID: <20200909130242.GA90890@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <2a78c4416eaa4bb90665075743ba7e7a@ultra-secure.de> References: <2a78c4416eaa4bb90665075743ba7e7a@ultra-secure.de>
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On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 09:40:38AM +0200, rainer@ultra-secure.de wrote: > Hi, > > I may be in a position to have to upgrade a FreeBSD 8.2 host to a > supported version (so I can install the latest packages). > > Obviously, this is still with the old pkg_* tools. > > Do I do the conversion at the end (when I'm on 12.1) or at the beginning > (when I'm on 9.3)? I think it is best to do it as early as possible. ports-mgmt/pkg used to have a script pkg2ng to do this conversion for you but it no longer does. > > I have my own pourdriere package builder and thanks to some hoarding, I > think I still have pretty much all the packages even of 9.something, > somewhere. > Mmm, perhaps it is a good idea to delete the old-generation packages and replace them with these cached packages first and then upgrade the OS and packages? René
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