From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun Feb 12 03:05:38 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC55CDC164 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2017 03:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from nskntmtas05p.mx.bigpond.com (nskntmtas05p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.168.149]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "InterMail Test Certificate", Issuer "Certificate Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC101173C for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2017 03:05:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from nskntcmgw08p ([61.9.169.168]) by nskntmtas05p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20170212030526.DFSF2121.nskntmtas05p.mx.bigpond.com@nskntcmgw08p> for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2017 03:05:26 +0000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org ([110.141.193.233]) by nskntcmgw08p with BigPond Outbound id jf5S1u00652cND201f5Seb; Sun, 12 Feb 2017 03:05:26 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=DL5ymH5b c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:117 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:17 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=n2v9WMKugxEA:10 a=cG9NA9Rk7h1Cw5K5CT8A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v1C35QOX067672 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:05:26 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id v1C35QLp067669 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:05:26 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:05:26 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Question on upgrading ports after 9.3->10.3 Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 03:05:38 -0000 Me again :-) I finally got around to following the notes that David Wolfskill kindly provided (thanks!) and apart from some oddity about "httpd" requiring a missing "libdb-4.2.so.2" (which will get rebuilt anyway), I'm a bit wary of this: 7. Back up any files in /usr/local that you wish to save [...] 8. Manually check /usr/local [...] to make sure that they are really empty. Errm, why? Is it going to clean out /usr/local from under my feet? If so, then that's a bit rude... Because of disk space limitations, I've got /usr/ports -> /usr/local/ports (/usr/local is a separate file system). And then there's all my private stuff... I think it means "save any local configuration files etc"; if so, it could be better phrased. PS: For those who also have a Mac, do *not* futz around with symlinks in this manner, as it confuses the hell out of macports... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."