On Sunday 03 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Mike Clarke wrote: > > After pondering a bit more over this problem I think I know where > > the 6.4 stuff may have come from. After I built the base system I > > copied various useful files from /root on the 6.4 system, > > including /root/.cshrc which contained a line setting PACKAGESITE > > to > > ftp://ftp2.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.4-relea > >se/All/ and it's quite possible that I ran portinstall -P for some > > ports before I got round to changing this to point to packages-8. > > Yep. This would stick a fairly hefty spanner in the works.
It certainly made quite a mess but it's surprising how well the system has been running with all this damage. Thanks for your comments and suggestions regarding the rebuilding process. Although the procedure I had in mind was similar some of your suggestions hadn't occurred to me and are much appreciated, I would almost certainly have overlooked /compat/linux and the need to re-run config-recursive. I've copied my system over to a spare PC so I can rebuild all the ports on the original machine without loosing access to a (sort of) working system. All the ports have been deinstalled from the original machine and I will now start work on re-installing the ports. Rather than run a single massive upgrade job I'll follow my normal practise of getting xorg and my nvidia driver working first then install the rest in a big batch. -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ 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"