On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn_at_googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:30:49 -0500 > Antonio Olivares <olivares14031_at_gmail.com> wrote: > >> > More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: >> > >> > There is no upgrade function. How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation? >> > >> > For instance, user might have built many software applications from ports and not want to rebuild everything. >> > >> >> I have the same doubt/question. If I update the system via the ports, >> do I have BETA3/RC1? or do I have to run >> # freebsd-update >> >> to get the current release? >> >> Also, like is suggested, if I update by any means, I will probably >> have to delete && reinstall everything in the ports. Is there a way >> not to do this? >> > > I run HEAD (what's now becoming 9.0) all the time and only very rarely > do I have to update ports because I updated world and kernel. I've > been doing this for many, many years. Generally, only ports which > are intimately tied to kernel sources, like virtualbox or the nividia-driver, > are affected. The easiest way to handle this is to use add the following lines to your /etc/src.conf to automatically rebuild / reinstall the ports when recompiling the kernel: $ grep -r PORTS_MODULES /etc/src.conf PORTS_MODULES= emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod x11/nvidia-driver It's an undocumented feature that I'm going to file a PR for so that it added to the documentation. Cheers, -GarrettReceived on Sun Sep 25 2011 - 16:19:22 UTC
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