On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:35:43 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, David Benfell wrote: > >> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:33:14 +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> >>> portupgrade -fa >>> >> Tried that. Several times. And the portmaster and portmanager >> equivalents. It looks like I would have to manually rebuild each of >> over 1000 ports I have installed to restore functionality. > > Sorry I missed the beginning of this thread, but it sounds to me like > you're trying to upgrade ports after a FreeBSD major version upgrade? If > so, the only safe way to do that is to delete all your existing ports, and > start over from scratch. The procedure I use is: > > 1. portmaster -l > ~/portmaster-list > 2. pkg_delete -f * (repeat as necessary) > 3. find /usr/local/ -type f This should produce very little output, except > in etc. Clean up as needed. > 4. Install portmaster :) > 5. Look at the list generated in 1, and first install all the root ports, > then install all the leaves. Portmaster will handle the dependencies. > > Given that you seem to be having problems with stale distfiles as well you > might want to insert a step 4.5 of 'rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*' but I'd > only do that as a last resort. > > hth, > > Doug > Thanks Doug. I've interrupted the other attempt and will initiate this as soon as I get out of a class I have to teach. -- David Benfell, LCP benfell_at_parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/ NOTE: I sign all messages with GnuPG (0DD1D1E3).
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