On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:20:27PM +0000, J. Altman wrote: > Greetings... > > I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64.
In case you're upgrading from source, do not forget to delete the archivers/xz port before doing a buildworld, else buildworld will fail. > As you know, Perl is now at 5.12 and requires a recursive dependency > rebuild; and so does libgcrypt. > > This seems to be a rather extensive pair of updates. I would advise you to use portmaster; 1) portmaster -o lang/perl5.12 lang/perl5.10 2) portmaster p5- That worked for me. > Perl, while (IIRC) it is in the base system Not anymore. > I also can't remember if a recursive rebuild of all ports after an > upgrade across releases was ever recommended. For some reason, I think > I read that somewhere. Only when switching between major versions. In that case it is best to make a list of all installed ports (portmaster -L), delete all ports before the upgrade, and install the 'root' and 'leaf' ports from the list again. > My point with these questions is to move toward 8.1 in the most > economical manner. If you are running a GENERIC kernel, you could use freebsd-update. That is probably the fastest. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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