From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 20:18:31 2011 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 B1A391065674 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:18:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727FF8FC1A for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxk36 with SMTP id 36so1200805yxk.13 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:18:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2NZEaVNLzXnoztZ9OBJ42glk+WKlJXtMqOF7fEZ3/Yo=; b=PZAKx0zt6PlXs+poM1FO9Ck8lWCg+lzN9O5iKTTW96TPI88bzsrf4J/GhyB6x/oSU9 EuhNXXVq0hlFaz6ydt+/Z2Z3k6tl3df2MQ4NJfR0OlrAifkii+5mk0Q6lLUtqARpUxNX LwclFfWVVuvCKQyGrbFr7S7PYiPDJRadY53NI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.60.76 with SMTP id o12mr998257ibh.83.1315513110549; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:18:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.59.71 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:18:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:18:30 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: bf1783@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Thomas Mueller , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared libraries version bump? 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: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:18:31 -0000 On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:42 AM, b. f. wrote: >> I think I'll rebuild all ports, and more, maybe I should make and keep p= ackages in case I can't update to BETA3 in place. > > If you want to be on the safe side, a complete rebuild is probably a > good idea -- and moreover, one that removes all ports and cleans out > ${PREFIX} and ${PKG_DBDIR} before rebuilding any ports, if you can > afford the downtime. =A0Otherwise, the new misc/compat8x port can help > ease the transition. =A0If they aren't available on pre-release media, > default packages for certain architectures are available at: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${ARCH}/packages-9-current/ > > Depending on the architecture, and when you download them, they will > have been compiled on a variety of recent versions of 9, but will > probably work on the BETAs, at least with misc/compat8x, as a stopgap > while you rebuild ports. 'man portmaster' provides a straight-forward procedure or this, but it will miss a few things do to complex dependencies involved in thongs like gnome2 and kde. These ports use "tricks" to keep the dependency tree under some control, but at a cost of occasionally missing things. Still, it gets you most of the way very easily. See the examples at the end of the man page. --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com