Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:00:25 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "J. Altman" <freebsd-announce@chthonic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 8.1; Perl; and libgcrypt Message-ID: <20100728160025.GA91164@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20100728152026.GA19185@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <20100728152026.GA19185@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:20:27PM +0000, J. Altman wrote: > Greetings... >=20 > I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64. In case you're upgrading from source, do not forget to delete the archivers= /xz port before doing a buildworld, else buildworld will fail. =20 > As you know, Perl is now at 5.12 and requires a recursive dependency > rebuild; and so does libgcrypt. >=20 > This seems to be a rather extensive pair of updates. I would advise you to use portmaster; 1) portmaster -o lang/perl5.12 lang/perl5.10 2) portmaster p5- That worked for me. > Perl, while (IIRC) it is in the base system Not anymore. > I also can't remember if a recursive rebuild of all ports after an > upgrade across releases was ever recommended. For some reason, I think > I read that somewhere. Only when switching between major versions. In that case it is best to make= a list of all installed ports (portmaster -L), delete all ports before the upgrade, and install the 'root' and 'leaf' ports from the list again. > My point with these questions is to move toward 8.1 in the most > economical manner. If you are running a GENERIC kernel, you could use freebsd-update. That is probably the fastest. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxQVBkACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWV6QCgmzqKy6MWfCWiwyGevGPwEzrB 3MIAoKf02Tc8zUeK+XXIQcZB2Gqapm3O =Ui4X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--
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