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
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
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:
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! already
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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John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com
OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop
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
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. Just the
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
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:05:13PM +0100, Rolf G Nielsen wrote:
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 before
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. Either
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
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 time,
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
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
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 are a LOT
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