Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 21:01:48 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem Message-ID: <20120519210148.a367fa7c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120519194309.756c19df@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <1337434051474-5709999.post@n5.nabble.com> <4FB7A6F9.2090202@FreeBSD.org> <1337450899955-5710066.post@n5.nabble.com> <20120519194309.756c19df@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Sat, 19 May 2012 19:43:09 +0100, RW wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT) > Beastie-Boy wrote: > > > Ok, many thanks for your replies. > > I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. > > That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. > > > When you cross a major OS release boundary, you need to force a rebuild > of all installed package, or reinstall from package files. It's often easy to do this using a port management tool. See "man portmaster" containing an example of exactly this procedure (EXAMPLES section). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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