Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:34:42 -0600 From: Bryan Albright <bryana@darth-vader.org> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade question? Message-ID: <20151214223442.GA62362@darth-vader.org> In-Reply-To: <64EF16E4-3992-40A1-B9E9-1238DEE0F6F3@mac.com> References: <20151214204949.GA27984@darth-vader.org> <64EF16E4-3992-40A1-B9E9-1238DEE0F6F3@mac.com>
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Thanks Charles! I am planning on staying at 9.3 for as short of a possible time as I can. Doing a buildworld/buildkernel/mergemaster ... but wasn't sure if I should do/have to do a port update between 8.4 to 10.2 -- I've gone from single major releasesfor years now... this is the first time I've done 2 major releases in a single "session" and was looking for advice it it would be better to upgrade ports at the 9.x step before I did the OS updgrade to 10.2 I'm honestly okay with either... Thanks! Bryan On 12/14/15 at 01:59PM, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Dec 14, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Bryan Albright <bryana@darth-vader.org> wrote: > > Hi folks! > > > > When upgrading from 8.4 to 9.3,in preparation to go from 9.3 to 10.2, > > does it make sense to do a full port upgrade, after checking > > /usr/ports/UPDATING (of course?) > > > > Something like a > > % portupgrade -a > > > > Between the update to 9.3 and the update to 10.2? Or can I "get away > > with" a update from 8.4 to 9.3, then update 9.3 to 10.2, then doa > > portupgrade -a? > > Are you stopping at 9.3 for a while, or are you moving to 10.2 immediately? > > If you're going to run 9.3 for a while, it's reasonable to recompile the > list of ports for that version. Otherwise, jave it be until after > you've updated to 10.2. > > > (and I'm open to a "better" method of upgrading ports - I've just been > > using a script to do the portupgrade since 2.2) > > You might find it cleaner to keep a list of ports you had installed, > (ie, a backup), do a clean install of 10.2, and then reinstall only > the ports which you know you want. Restore the ports config and > anything else under /usr/local/etc which you want to keep around. > > Some of the older ports you had might not be needed anymore-- ie, > build time deps, stuff which has been integrated or modernized from > the base FreeBSD, etc. > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck -- Bryan Albright The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination...
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