Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Erik Nørgaard wrote:
portupgrade isn't suitable for upgrading the entire machine, even
though you do recursive and Recursive.
What, in your opinion, makes it unsuitable? I've used portugrade
exclusively and never had trouble.
Unsuitable if
- it is slower than the altertative to deinstall all ports and
reinstall.
- thinks break
I don't claim it won't work, I don't claim that things will break, but
they may depending on what is being upgraded which was not mentioned in OP.
The problem is that the double (up and down) recursive resolution of
interdependencies quickly becomes very complex with the result that some
ports may be updated multiple times, or that portupgrade will choke
trying to figure out where to start.
It then quickly becomes much faster to simply deinstall all ports and
reinstall. It also lets you clean up any junk that may have been left
for whatever reasons.
And, then there are the general warnings about upgrading Gnome (not
minor minor upgrades) eg 2.8 to 2.10, upgrading perl and friends, module
paths etc. These are things that can ofcourse be resolved, I just found
it easier to clean up the whole thing and reinstall it, see
/usr/ports/UPDATING - there are numerous warnings on portupgrade.
For single/few apps upgrade portupgrade is fine, or if the system is
mostly up to date so a full upgrade will only affect a few packages.
I have had my system serverely down after using portupgrade because of
problems with dependencies on X11.
OP did not mention how old the system to be upgraded is. So in the
particular case it is dificult to say. But I assume that if he wants to
upgrade his _entire_ system then I can assume significant updates to be
done.
Erik
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