On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:42 AM, b. f. <bf1783_at_googlemail.com> wrote: >> I think I'll rebuild all ports, and more, maybe I should make and keep packages in case I can't update to BETA3 in place. > > If you want to be on the safe side, a complete rebuild is probably a > good idea -- and moreover, one that removes all ports and cleans out > ${PREFIX} and ${PKG_DBDIR} before rebuilding any ports, if you can > afford the downtime. Otherwise, the new misc/compat8x port can help > ease the transition. If they aren't available on pre-release media, > default packages for certain architectures are available at: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${ARCH}/packages-9-current/ > > Depending on the architecture, and when you download them, they will > have been compiled on a variety of recent versions of 9, but will > probably work on the BETAs, at least with misc/compat8x, as a stopgap > while you rebuild ports. 'man portmaster' provides a straight-forward procedure or this, but it will miss a few things do to complex dependencies involved in thongs like gnome2 and kde. These ports use "tricks" to keep the dependency tree under some control, but at a cost of occasionally missing things. Still, it gets you most of the way very easily. See the examples at the end of the man page. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558_at_gmail.comReceived on Thu Sep 08 2011 - 18:18:31 UTC
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