On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I was running FreeBSD 8.1 and am in the process of updating it >> following advice in handbook: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html >> >> ran >> # freebsd-update fetch >> # freebsd-update install >> >> # portupgrade -af >> >> # freebsd-update -r 8.2-RELEASE upgrade >> >> then >> >> # freebsd-update install >> >> Tried to do this: >> # portupgrade -f ruby >> # rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db >> # portupgrade -f ruby18-bdb >> # rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /usr/ports/INDEX-*.db >> # portupgrade -af >> >> Did not work correctly[too many customizations] and Tried again > > portupgrade is written in Ruby and uses ruby-bdb, so this may not work. -f > is of questionable value. Why not just cd to the port directories, and > 'make clean build deinstall install'? This is what I am running now ATM
# cd /usr/ports/ # make clean build deinstall install Will it install all the ports? or only the ones that are installed? > >> # freebsd-update install >> >> and had nothing more to do :( >> >> I had many packages that need to be updated so I am running : >> >> # portupgrade -arRp > > -a is equivalent to -arR. And that's building packages, which is not > necessary unless you want to copy them to another machine. > >> will this prompt me for customizations? > > Options menus? Yes, the ports will ask on their own. If you use the -c or > -C options, portupgrade will do all of them at the start of the process. > Thanks, Antonio _______________________________________________ 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"