From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 16 18:59:40 2009 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 84D321065706 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:59:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A698FC0C for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:59:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (gate.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.10]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A107E818; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:59:33 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:59:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.0; i386; ; ) References: <49E64867.5060209@gmail.com> <200904161217.08784.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090416162732.GA5626@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090416162732.GA5626@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904162059.31243.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Roland Smith , "Eugene L." Subject: Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding 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: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:59:41 -0000 On Thursday 16 April 2009 18:27:32 Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:17:08PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: > > > > I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for > > > > some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are > > > > kernel specific, like hal, so I wonder how to rebuild those ports > > > > automatically? > > > > > > If you switch to another major version of FreeBSD, the best course is > > > to remove and reinstall all ports. > > > > All ports depending on libc. Which is everything except > > scripts. Removal isn't necessary. ports-mgmt/portmaster is one of > > those scripts that doesn't need recompilation and can be used to force > > recompilation of all ports that need it. Two for one deal. > > Unfortunately, no port management tool deals completely with this > situation. The libc version isn't listed as a dependency, AFAIK. Yes, that's right. However, portmaster is capable of ignoring ports for updating using +IGNOREME files in the corresponding /var/db/pkg/pkgname directory. You can invest a little time before the upgrade which ports you can skip this way. On the other hand, reinstalling script only ports, probably takes less time then figuring this out. YMMV. > I tend to make a list of all installed ports (with portmaster -L), wipe > all ports and remove any remains from /usr/local. Then reinstall all > ports listed as 'root ports' and 'leaf ports' in said list. This makes > sure you have a clean and consistent set of ports. I guess I'm just anti-redoing-configuration, since there's so many formats out there. One can of course backup ${LOCALBASE}/etc --exclude rc.d, but the number of exceptions grows over time (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, /usr/local/squid/*, /usr/local/pgsql/data/*, /usr/local/hybserv/*). I also see an advantage to your method. I've been running into incorrect PLISTs more often, which can leave traces of old files. -- Mel