Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:48:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Zoltan Frombach <tssajo@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade -af question Message-ID: <20041027003640.K42571@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV100Bqhk6KR800012731@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-DAV100Bqhk6KR800012731@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Zoltan Frombach wrote: > Okay guys, this is my very first post to the list, so please be nice to me. > ;-) > > I have a simple question. I currently have FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3 (from May > 9, 2004) installed on a semi-production server. I need to update it to > 5.3-RELEASE when it becomes available. I've read in src/UPDATING that all > installed ports must be rebuilt (after a successful build world and install > world, of course). Someone suggested to use 'portupgrade -af' to rebuild all Don't forget the mergemaster step! > installed ports. But this would take a whole day, especially since it's just > a single processor Pentium III system. Shouldn't it be faster to let > portupgrade use pre-compiled packages (either from a 5.3-RELEASE install CD > or from a remote site)? Something like: 'portupgrade -afP' ? Would it work? > This would save a lot of time... a lot of down-time, in fact. This is guaranteed to work if: - Your ports skeleton is up to date. - This machine has HTTP and FTP access enabled. - The ports you are upgrading are not forbidden, deprecated or broken. - All distfiles are available from at least one of the relevant mirrors. This is the case because portupgrade -P searches for packages locally or wherever PKG_PATH points to, tries to use pkg_fetch and then falls back to updating from ports if precompiled packages are not available. > Can someone more experienced with portupgrade confirm that this would work? I > would really appreciate either a firm yes or a firm no answer. I just need to > know the answer to this question from someone who is more knowledgable than I > am, before I start doing something stupid... ;-) Thank you guys, all!! "firm yes", but only if all of the above conditions are met. Have fun with this "upgradathon"! :-) Regards, Andy | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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