From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 02:57:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD763EFD; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:57:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843598FC18; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qAP2vD5U018257; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:57:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id qAP2vCY1018254; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:57:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:57:12 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Tim Daneliuk Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready? In-Reply-To: <50B14CAA.4000704@tundraware.com> Message-ID: References: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> <50B140AC.2000804@FreeBSD.org> <50B14CAA.4000704@tundraware.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:57:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:57:17 -0000 On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 11/24/2012 03:48 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> It is not however sufficient to get you a completely upgraded system: >> you will still have to re-install all of your ports. Otherwise, as you >> end up trying to upgrade ports by ones and twos over time, you'll end up >> with a complete rat's nest of contradictory shared library dependencies >> and programs crashing left, right and centre. > > So I am discovering. I moved the system to 9.1-PRE today with a > source compile. After I then did a make remove-old, the system > started complaining about missing libraries. So ... I temporarily > fixed this with appropriate /etc/libmap.conf entires. I am now > about to do a portupgrade -aARrvf to redo the ports. We'll see > how that goes... portupgrade -avf is equivalent (-r and -R are redundant with -a). Including -c helps to get the config screens out of the way up front.