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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:51:47 +0400
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: proper upgrade procedure from base to base
Message-ID:  <02853996@ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4A328B1D.3050703@icyb.net.ua> (Andriy Gapon's message of "Fri\, 12 Jun 2009 20\:06\:37 %2B0300")
References:  <4A328B1D.3050703@icyb.net.ua>

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Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> writes:

> What is the proper upgrade procedure to go, say, from f7 to f8 or from f8 to f10
> (later)?
> UPDATING says to follow instructions from 20070327, but those amount to "remove

Have you read those instructions to the end? ;-)

> old base port, install new base port". But then what about ports for xorg or gtk2
> or alsa lib? They do not seem to get updated following this procedure.

This can be useful:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-June/006221.html

> Is there an automated way to upgrade all ports that have different versions for
> different bases?

We have only one default linux base port per an OS version. So changing
a base linux ports is not supposed to be rare. I'm not sure if an
automated tool may be useful here.

Said that I'm not aware of such a tool.


WBR
-- 
bsam



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