Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:50:08 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proper upgrade procedure from base to base Message-ID: <4A365FA0.4050606@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <02853996@ipt.ru> References: <4A328B1D.3050703@icyb.net.ua> <02853996@ipt.ru>
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on 12/06/2009 20:51 Boris Samorodov said the following: > Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> writes: > >> What is the proper upgrade procedure to go, say, from f7 to f8 or from f8 to f10 >> (later)? >> UPDATING says to follow instructions from 20070327, but those amount to "remove > > Have you read those instructions to the end? ;-) Yeah, but the instructions at the end looked like some special case, while in fact it doesn't seem possible to do a proper upgrade without them. >> old base port, install new base port". But then what about ports for xorg or gtk2 >> or alsa lib? They do not seem to get updated following this procedure. > > This can be useful: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-June/006221.html Yes, I ended up following this example. However I must say that some ports are a pain to re-install (e.g. HeroesOfMightAndMagic), especially when technically don't need to be reinstalled. >> Is there an automated way to upgrade all ports that have different versions for >> different bases? > > We have only one default linux base port per an OS version. So changing > a base linux ports is not supposed to be rare. I'm not sure if an > automated tool may be useful here. > > Said that I'm not aware of such a tool. I am sad too. -- Andriy Gapon
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