From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 21 22:29:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9B51065676 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00BE8FC12 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19131 invoked by uid 399); 21 Sep 2009 22:29:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 21 Sep 2009 22:29:55 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4AB7FE55.2080709@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:29:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090822) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20090921220608.610191CC39@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20090921220608.610191CC39@ptavv.es.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: barbara , freebsd-current Subject: Re: Still can't seem to get sysutils/hal compile on current. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:29:59 -0000 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 -- This .signature sanitized for your protection