Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:23:26 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?SG9yc3QgR8O8bnRoZXIgQnVya2hhcmR0IElJSQ==?= <horst@sxemacs.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sane CFLAGS. Message-ID: <493E00CE.40604@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1228799404.1832.30.camel@horst-tla> References: <1228748788.1832.18.camel@horst-tla> <20081208151307.GA41398@narn.knownspace> <1228755903.1832.21.camel@horst-tla> <493D5AE5.6020002@freebsd.org> <1228761068.1832.25.camel@horst-tla> <493D6994.60903@freebsd.org> <1228799404.1832.30.camel@horst-tla>
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Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:38 -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote: >>> Any way to just remove everything that Ports has done, and rebuild the entire lot using the settings i had saved? :\ >>> >> If you need to wipe everything, pkg_deinstall -a > > [ bsdbox ] [ root ] [ ~ ] ==> pkg_deinstall -a > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... ** Stale lock > file was found. Removed. > Illegal instruction: 4 (core dumped) I meant pkg_delete -a in my last mail, not pkg_deinstall -a. pkg_deinstall is related to portupgrade, whereas pkg_delete is part of the base. You can also rm -rf /usr/local /var/db/pkg to hose everything by hand. This is one of the nice side effects of the base/ports separation. >> You will need to reinstall everything by hand, unfortunately, but it >> will keep your settings. >> >> You can also make sure you got all the dependencies by doing pkg_info -r >> portupgrade*, which will list the packages on which portupgrade depends. >> -Nathan > > Doctor, how hosed am I?... > > (I'm glad I won't lose my distfiles at least, they're NFS mounted on the > same folder as my gentoo distfiles, for epic win.) > > What's the advised course of action? > > (If I _must_ reinstall is there a way to keep my ports options? some > sort of file I can back up?) > > Also, do I have to go through the bootloader garbage again if I > reinstall? :( No, if you have to reinstall you can keep all the bootloader stuff. But there is no reason you should have to if you did not rebuild world with altivec enabled. -Nathan
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