Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:40:29 +0100 From: "Bartek Dedersen" <kyrosthebravekingofpersia@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Updating the ports from STABLE to CURRENT Message-ID: <f12137c40701190840s3d0e3df9ud37ed0e2a848c4b5@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi. I thought of trying out the bleeding edge and hoped my knowledge of BSD is high enough to handle it without any major problems. But: I installed FreeBSD-6.1 with the provided ISO package available on freebsd.org. Some packages were installed via pkg_add. After one week, the technician of the German telecommunication firm managed to visit me and put his finger on the cables in the cellar. Well, I thought of upgrading some packages with the ports-subsystem. It was pretty easy and nice. But then I wanted more and installed CURRENT from the CVS-source. Some buildworlds and kernel configuration later, I had a 7.0 Current. Ok, after a startx I got some error that libXmmu cannot be found. Ok, so I tried to recompile xorg-libraries. Ok, but there were lots of broken packages due to a filesystem breakdown after a kernel panic. Well, I tried to delete it with pkg_delete -f and it worked. Now, I am recompiling it from the updated ports-collection. Do I have to expect more failures and do I see an upcoming recompiling week due to broken libraries which do not work on CURRENT? Is it more useful to reinstall BSD from scratch and update it first? I know, CURRENT is not for productive use but I need something to put my fingers on. Maybe I will learn. Is there a command to recompile, deinstall and reinstall every installed package from the ports-system? If not, it will be hell. Bartek
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