Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:29:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: barbara <barbara.xxx1975@libero.it>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Still can't seem to get sysutils/hal compile on current. Message-ID: <4AB7FE55.2080709@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20090921220608.610191CC39@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090921220608.610191CC39@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote:
> No, you parsed it quite well,
First time for everything. :)
> but the standard recommendation was simply
> to "re-install al ports" and was accompanied in some cases with the
> suggestion to use portupgrade or portmaster to do this.
I'm not sure that is the standard recommendation. However let me make
myself clear, I and a lot of others recommend to first remove all your
old ports, then reinstall the ones you want to have again.
> Cleaning out /usr/local is the way to avoid this, but it is far more
> time consuming, especially sysadmin time, than re-installing ports by
> using portupgrade/portmaster, so it is done far less often.
Actually I think time-wise it's a wash, unless you're in a position to
do 'rm -rf /usr/local/*' in which case that would be much faster than
'pkg_delete -f *'. The reason it's a wash is that even portmaster and
portupgrade do the pkg_delete step, they just do it "in line" with the
upgrade for that port.
hth,
Doug
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