On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:49:32AM +, John wrote:
>
> Looks like I had to learn the hard way. portmanager won't fix it all.
Been there, done that. :-)
I think this problem is just too complex when updating between major versions,
for several reasons. First of all being that the port managem
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 08:28:52AM +, John wrote:
[..stuff...]
Looks like I had to learn the hard way. portmanager won't fix it all.
Basically had to make delete old libs and files as per the Makefile in
/usr/src, then did pkg_delete -a then rm -rf /usr/ports then portsnap,
then installed wh
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:29:44 PST Rolf G Nielsen wrote:
Charlie Kester wrote:
Can someone remind me once again, when rebuilding all of my ports,
what is the trick for avoiding the options dialogs? I'd like to have
this run largely unattended. I seem to recall someone describing a
method to go
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:09:48PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
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> I would _strongly_ advise you to make a list of all your current ports, e.g.
> with
> 'portmaster -L >ports.list', deleting all ports and re-installing the ports
> labeled as 'leaf ports' and 'root ports' in ports.list.
oops! alre
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:18:51PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:09:48 PST Roland Smith wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote:
> >>
> >> Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main
> >> machine, my desktop - and so there
Charlie Kester wrote:
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:09:48 PST Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote:
Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main
machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will
be easier to make p
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:09:48 PST Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote:
Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main
machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will
be easier to make portmanager rebuild ever
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote:
>
> Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main
> machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will
> be easier to make portmanager rebuild everything in pristine mode. It
> will take a long tim
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, John wrote:
Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main
machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will
be easier to make portmanager rebuild everything in pristine mode. It
will take a long time, but I accept this. Before t
John wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to
> no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are
> there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers.
>
>
You can go the source way or the 'freebsd-update' way. E
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:05:13PM +0100, Rolf G Nielsen wrote:
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> Just another note or two.
>
> If you decide to recompile the ports using portupgrade, portmaster or a
> similar tool, rather than, as Pieter suggested, deleting them and
> re-installing, make sure your ports are up to date befo
John wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote:
Hello list
I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to
no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are
there gotchas b
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to
> no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are
> there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers.
>
You got it right. Jus
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote:
> > Hello list
> >
> > I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to
> > no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are
> > there got
Hello list
I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to
no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are
there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers.
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