On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +0000, 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 this is done, I run the > built-in routines in /usr/ports - clean out */work/* and distfiles.
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. While portmaster/-manager do their best, they just cannot cover all the corner cases, especially since some ports require extra action (e.g. perl!) There is a good chance you'll end up with a big mess like binaries linked to both 7.x and 8.x libraries or ports failing to build for mysterious reasons. Both have happened to me in the past and are a major PITA to fix. I've done the complete delete/reinstall run a couple of times now on my desktop with ≈490 ports installed. 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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