Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:20:15 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Novembre <novembre@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install? Message-ID: <18807.58863.983982.191053@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90901211835o7eae77d9v2bead5e01dcf14af@mail.gmail.com> References: <3b47caa90901211835o7eae77d9v2bead5e01dcf14af@mail.gmail.com>
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Novembre writes: > I have a system which was updated from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE > some eight months ago via a source upgrade. After that, I rebuilt > all the packages on the system as well. Now, I would like to > update it again to 7.1-RELEASE, and I'm wondering whether I > should do a clean install or just do a source upgrade again. My > question is regarding all the old cruft that remains after the > upgrade and rebuilding of all the packages, as I already know > that there are a bunch of old libraries residing somewhere on the > system. Do you have ports-mgmt/portupgrade(-devel) installed? If so, are you aware of "portsclean"? This has worked successfully for me for several years. Robert Huff
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