Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:52:51 -0400 From: William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> To: Jim Ohlstein <jim@mailman-hosting.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sudo,pkg,Mailman all broken after upgrade from 10.3 to 11.2 Message-ID: <CAFsnNZ%2Beh4vvcZCd_Y1yzE3fdPjbZT8ugRR7V5bDSOW8r4Mibg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1ad541c0eb960ab8bf970f8461fef4fb@mailman-hosting.com> References: <CAFsnNZ%2BKM=D5TcyVXrHNPo53GDbkrdc8cFL9uxNGEBFzpQk18g@mail.gmail.com> <CAFsnNZL5xNDBNT=HdR5TOFyzaj%2B9MKr=K1CCWv2aCKKT8U=9OA@mail.gmail.com> <20180913153344.GA50367@gmail.com> <1ad541c0eb960ab8bf970f8461fef4fb@mailman-hosting.com>
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Yes, it does. I read this: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/installation.html which doesn't tell the whole story, or else it should say "make sure you read the page in the handbook". I think it should. Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 5:29 PM, <jim@mailman-hosting.com> wrote: > On 2018-09-13 11:33, Matt Smith wrote: > >> On Sep 13 09:29, William Dudley wrote: >> >>> replying to my own questions. >>> >>> The upgrade directions didn't state that I had to run pkg-static to >>> upgrade >>> pkg, >>> and then do pkg upgrade. They just said "rebuild ports", of which I have >>> none. >>> >>> So some googling revealed the missing instructions, and I am running pkg >>> upgrade >>> as I write this. >>> >>> Here, so the answers will be found by a search, is the missing >>> documentation: >>> >>> After the final freebsd-update install and reboot, do this: >>> >>> pkg-static -f install pkg >>> pkg upgrade (or possibly "pkg -f upgrade") >>> >>> >> This is the problem. You run freebsd-update three times. The final >> time deletes the old shared libraries and binaries that were on the >> old system and are no longer on the new system. >> >> What you should do is run it twice, then run pkg upgrade to reinstall >> all the packages, and then run it the final time. >> >> The workaround if you do what you did is to use pkg-static instead, so >> it's good that you found this out. But I agree it should be mentioned >> in the upgrade instructions. This happens quite often. >> > > This is in the handbook at https://www.freebsd.org/doc/ha > ndbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html in 23.2.3.2. "Upgrading > Packages After a Major Version Upgrade". >
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