On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: > > I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for > > some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are kernel > > specific, like hal, so I wonder how to rebuild those ports automatically? > > If you switch to another major version of FreeBSD, the best course is to > remove and reinstall all ports.
All ports depending on libc. Which is everything except scripts. Removal isn't necessary. ports-mgmt/portmaster is one of those scripts that doesn't need recompilation and can be used to force recompilation of all ports that need it. Two for one deal. I personally do make delete-old-libs /before/ recompiling ports this way, because 1) I'm sure a port doesn't link to an old library and 2) the ports that failed will complain more loudly. However, when you're doing this for the first time, it's not a bad idea to make a seperate slice for current and cross-install on there (the procedure is documented in /usr/src/UPDATING). It's trivial to look at the stable slice's /var/db/pkg and install all those ports, then copy over configuration files. /home can be share without problems, providing you create the users again with the same uid. The advantage is that you have a workable system to fall back on whenever -current breaks something you need. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"