Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:43:09 +0200 From: Artifex Maximus <artifexor@gmail.com> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: upgrading remote server Message-ID: <9cbf3f070910200443x575ed24fq396aa9b113e06af0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ADCDA31.6090006@identry.com> References: <4ADB2F6F.8090107@identry.com> <beaf3aa50910181101y1fc66eefs78052dc96857de4e@mail.gmail.com> <beaf3aa50910181102k39d23110kd467fe79b4de73f5@mail.gmail.com> <4ADB75D8.5060404@identry.com> <4ADB8631.7000800@identry.com> <4ADB8AD3.5050009@gmail.com> <4ADB9C50.3000505@identry.com> <F6B4177ED8AA34BFB566A64D@Macintosh-2.local> <4ADBDD2D.5040709@identry.com> <4ADCDA31.6090006@identry.com>
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Hello! On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:29 PM, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > Okay! After a lot of googling/reading I successfully upgraded to 7.2, now > I'm trying to upgrade ports... > > I ran portmaster -L and got a long list of ports that need upgrading... > From my reading, it seems like the only way to do this is to go through the > list, one by one, and either (1) delete unused ports or (2) upgrade ports > that seem to need it. > > This is going to take quite a bit of time... am I missing something (other > than the fact that I should have been doing this all along?) > > That is a time consuming process indeed. Don't forget this is a major version update. You must upgrade all ports because there is possibly some change in library versions, API or any other part of system. Might use: portmaster -a -f which direct portmaster to process all ports and force rebuild of all ports. And again read /usr/src/UPGRADING and /usr/ports/UPGRADE for more information. Bye, a
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