Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:34:38 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: non-destructive ports/packages update Message-ID: <517236fe.7AoqFIleDJvljza6%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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I'm looking for a way to move everything connected with ports and packages aside, so that I can start fresh but with the ability to easily roll it back when things go badly (as they surely will). I have in mind to something like this: # cd /usr # mkdir old # mv ports local old # mkdir ports local # cd /var/db # mkdir old # mv ports pkg old # mkdir ports pkg Is there anything else that needs to be saved before fetching a new ports tree and starting to build things (or install prebuilt packages)? This is on 8.1, although I suspect the answer does not depend on the OS version. And yes, there's plenty of space in /usr and /var.
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