Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:43:49 +0100 From: "Vincent Barus" <vibarus@googlemail.com> To: "Marko Lerota" <mlerota@iskon.hr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements Message-ID: <e4207650803181443r5a05cb6aq59f4de9389482f70@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86eja7et3j.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> References: <867igo3cih.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <47C749CF.4010501@FreeBSD.org> <86eja7et3j.fsf@zid.claresco.hr>
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Marko Lerota <mlerota@iskon.hr> wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > >> Then the servers. Why should I reinstall all my databases and such? > >> I always > >> liked that FreeBSD base (OS) is separated from packages. And no > >> matter what I do with the packages, my OS will always work. I don't > >> want dependency > >> hell like in Linux. Now you are telling me that my database might not work > >> after upgrade to a new version. Is that it? > > > > First, try to relax. > > Sorry, but I'm pissed off now, not relax any more. > > > > portupgrade -faP requests to reinstall everything from precompiled > > packages. It will only fall back to compiling them locally if the > > package is unavailable (e.g. for legal reasons). > > It passed two days from portupgrade -faP, and it didn't finished yet. > To be worse, I have to do it again because the PC had to be rebooted. > So in the next 2-3 days I can sit with my PC and wait with him to > finish the upgrade. It will be three days because of Openoffice!@#!@#!@#!. > And I have to pray the god that I don't have the power loss. > Now apache and acroread doesn't work any more and I'm afraid that > I'll find some other stuff that don't work too. > > So can anyone tell me this is not stupid??? Reinstalling all > applications because of upgrade? This can be called new > installation. Not upgrade. > > Now I'm thinking that It would be much easier that I backup my files, > databases and other stuff and do fresh installation. But why???? > So I can do the same thing when 8_0 comes out? > > This is the worst thing that I found about FreeBSD for now. > This have to be changed or fixed somehow, because the upgrade > is not possible if you have lots of ports installed, and > certainly can't be called upgrade! > > > -- > One cannot sell the earth upon which the people walk > Tacunka Witco > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Marko, you can always use the -w flag of portupgrade if interrupted it while upgrading the installed ports: ------------ w --noclean Do not "make clean" before each build. See the -c option above. ------------ If you start the portupgrade again without -w then it will use -c by default which means all your "inbuildproccess" ports are gone. I don't know if -w is the clean way to resume from an interrupted portupgrade, but i never had problems with it. Well, ok you mustn't install any other port before you resume your portupgrade that could confuse your system :) The more clean and easy way to do a upgrade of your ports after switching to another major release (I do it this way everytime): #pkg_delete -fa <--- is much faster than pkg_deinstall Then i get my Ports with the -P flag of portinstall. A few days ago I did it this way after I jumped from 7 Release to 7 Stable. It took me about three hours to get my x11-wm/xfce4, x11/xorg (yes the complete xorg) and some other tools I need to work because the biggest part of this ports were available as prebuild pkgs. Try it this way, Vincent
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