From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 09:24:48 2010 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 5F76A1065675 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) 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 198978FC13 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:24:47 +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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OaQ74-0007IH-Il for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:24:46 +0200 Received: from [84.25.59.18] (helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OaQ6y-0004xD-Ql for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:24:40 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F503983D for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:24:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C42C857.8020101@boosten.org> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:24:39 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1OaQ6y-0004xD-Ql X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-1.111, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_05 -1.11, SPF_PASS -0.00) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: peter@boosten.org X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Observations during upgrade 7.2 -> 8.0 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: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:24:48 -0000 Hi all, I recently upgraded several machines from 7.2 to 8.0 and I made a few observations: Two machines run on an ESX vmware server, and while interfaces started counting at 0 (ie le0, le1, etc), now these interfaces start at 1 (le0 -> le1, le1 -> le2). Is there any reason for 8.0 doing this, since it messed up a lot of things? During the upgrade of all the packages using portupgrade, the pkgdb.db got corrupted while upgrading ruby18-bdb, and interrupted the upgrade of all packages (using portupgrade -af). I've checked this by upgrading the port itself. Is this normal, and can it be prevented, like excluding it from portugrade -fa? TIA Peter -- http://www.boosten.org