Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:44:50 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 9.2 -> 10.0 Compile error Message-ID: <630786.59899.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <BLU0-SMTP633F512AE638514255E032B3830@phx.gbl> <20140227162018.3314629c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <BLU0-SMTP4079C989C35436613F51A3B3830@phx.gbl> <lenroi$acd$1@ger.gmane.org>
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> You may find /usr/ports/UPDATING entry 20131217: interesting. I think the
> plan here is to have a period of semi-deprecation of some months then at
> some point the 4.1/4.2 ports will cease to exist.
> Since 10 is the point where Clang is now the default, as well as some other
> changes (unbind) I decided to do a fresh install from scratch so everything
> would be clean with no cruft left over from pre 10 days. I had hoped that the
> db41/db42 situation would just take care of itself automagically with the
> fresh 10 install, but it did not.
> In /usr/src/Makefile:
> [...]
> # 9. `make delete-old'
> # 10. `reboot'
> # 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them
> anymore)
> You should rebuild all ports *first* - prior to doing the 'make delete-old-
> libs' after a source based upgrade between major versions (9.x -> so.x)
> -Mike
"man portmaster", near the bottom of the page, suggests making a list of all ports, updating the ports tree and fetching all new distfiles, and then deleting all ports before rebuilding when updating all ports as is advised after a major version upgrade.
But 'make delete-old-libs', done too soon, could possibly pull needed libraries out from under portmaster and pkg.
I'm thinking of upgrading from 9.2-STABLE to 11-current, jumping over 10.
Tom
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