From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 14:00:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7785D106566B for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:00:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE1C8FC13 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.133] (helo=smtp2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlhgE-0005pp-Qu for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:00:30 +0100 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlhgE-0000SR-Hv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:00:30 +0100 Received: from [192.168.11.34] (192.168.11.34) by yanta (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 30D1E1; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:04:23 +0100 Message-ID: <4F1038FF.9060908@nagual.nl> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:00:31 +0100 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F1034AB.903@nagual.nl> <4F103824.8040004@ose.nl> In-Reply-To: <4F103824.8040004@ose.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 X-Ziggo-spambar: ++ X-Ziggo-spamscore: 2.1 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_05=-0.5, CM_META_TB_NOARR=0.5, FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D=0.665, HELO_MISC_IP=0.001, KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.474, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No Subject: Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:00:32 -0000 Op 13-1-2012 14:56, Bas Smeelen schreef: > On 01/13/2012 02:42 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE. >> I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with "freebsd-update -r >> 9.0-RELEASE fetch" If so, I do like to hear the caveats. >> My main problem lies with the installed ports. I know the -all- have to be >> recompiled, but I don't know an easy way for this job. I always use >> portmaster. Do I have to make a list manually for all installed ports? Or >> is there a procedure to follow in this matter? I'd like to get some >> pointers if possible. >> Thanks. >> _ > It works great with source upgrade, so freebsd-update should not be a > problem but i haven't used it yet to upgrade to 9. > It is used like this: freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade (i.e. not fetch) > See also the handbook for a good explanation > > You can use portmaster --list-origins to make a list of all root and leaf > ports and use this to reinstall all ports after the upgrade. > See man portmaster for a good example. > > Or you can use portmaster -af to recompile all ports. Ah, yes, I remember the latter is disadviced because some ports can have differences so you have some garbage if you run portmaster -af I will look up the example in the manual. It also will tell me (probably) if all ports have to be removed beforehand or that this does not matter.