From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 03:20:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E76106564A for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:20:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC44F8FC0A for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:20:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2009 22:20:19 -0500 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.10.4-GA) with ESMTP id PKZ53434; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:20:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from 209-6-22-188.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.22.188]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2009 22:20:16 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18807.58863.983982.191053@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:20:15 -0500 To: Novembre In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90901211835o7eae77d9v2bead5e01dcf14af@mail.gmail.com> References: <3b47caa90901211835o7eae77d9v2bead5e01dcf14af@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:20:20 -0000 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