Re: Errors with ports on 9.3..

[Mark Saad]

> On Jun 3, 2017, at 3:10 PM, Mark Saad  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Adam Vande More  wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Howard Leadmon  wrote:
>>>Thanks for the update, I had the feeling the issue was from it being to 
>>> old.   I have a question, not sure if you know, but I will toss it out.   
>>> As I mentioned I update using svn for both src and ports, and I am curious 
>>> to know if I can actually bring my src tree up to the most current 10.x 
>>> stable, recompile, and install and have it all run?
> 
> So here is my take on the update . For starters if you are using a stock 
> binary 9.3-RELEASE you can use freebsd-update to go 9.3 -> 10.1 , 10.1 -> 
> 10.3  , 10.3 -> 11.0 . In theory freebsd-update should allow for 9.x -> 10.x 
> but there was some breakage in the 10's FreeBSD updates that prevented this .
> 
> If you decided to do a source build you can go 9.x to 10.3 w/o much. 

I meant to say trouble but I accidentally hit send . 


Another option is to download the binary sets from ftp.freebsd.org 

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/11.0-RELEASE/

Now with some care you can backup your 9 kernel to kernel.old and untar the 
kernel tar to /boot . Then reboot in single user . Backup your etc and extract 
the base tar and then using etcupdate for fixing etc or manually fix it with 
your backup . Then reboot and fix the ports using pkg -f install pkg && pkg 
upgrade .  However if you haven't done this before it can be error prone if . 

Also you can look into boot environments for zfs but if memory serves me right 
it's not fully baked into 9.x and it may not work right . 

> 
>>> 
>>>  In the past with much older versions, I know file system changes and such 
>>> make it pretty hard to jump major revisions,
>>> so have a little bit of fear about jumping from 9.x to 10.x, and possibly 
>>> even to 11.x if that is now stable.   I am using ZFS, so I guess that would 
>>> be one thing that is outside the norm, but should be part of the base 
>>> kernels now anyway.
>>> 
>>>  Any input on upgrading would be most appreciated...

Honestly 11 has been very stable . There are issues but nothing that has wanted 
me to roll back to 10 . 

I am using 10.3-STABLE from about a year ago for my routers and 11.0-STABLE 
from April for general use and it's been good and crash free. Knock on wood . 

One thing to remember is upgrading the zpool and zfs version/ feature flags . 
Al la zfs upgrade pool0/foo . This is a one time job ; with no way to go back . 
So save this for last after your box has settled down and you are comfortable. 

>> 
>> I don't know what you know I guess, but it should work following these 
>> instructions:
>> 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>> 
>> or these:
>> 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html
>> 
>> or these:
>> 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/installation.html
>> 
>> It is probably wise to make a backup and do a test first.
>> 
>> -- 


>> Adam


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Re: Errors with ports on 9.3..

[Mark Saad]

> On Jun 3, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Adam Vande More  wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Howard Leadmon  wrote:
>>Thanks for the update, I had the feeling the issue was from it being to 
>> old.   I have a question, not sure if you know, but I will toss it out.   As 
>> I mentioned I update using svn for both src and ports, and I am curious to 
>> know if I can actually bring my src tree up to the most current 10.x stable, 
>> recompile, and install and have it all run?

So here is my take on the update . For starters if you are using a stock binary 
9.3-RELEASE you can use freebsd-update to go 9.3 -> 10.1 , 10.1 -> 10.3  , 10.3 
-> 11.0 . In theory freebsd-update should allow for 9.x -> 10.x but there was 
some breakage in the 10's FreeBSD updates that prevented this .

If you decided to do a source build you can go 9.x to 10.3 w/o much.


>> 
>>  In the past with much older versions, I know file system changes and such 
>> make it pretty hard to jump major revisions,
>> so have a little bit of fear about jumping from 9.x to 10.x, and possibly 
>> even to 11.x if that is now stable.   I am using ZFS, so I guess that would 
>> be one thing that is outside the norm, but should be part of the base 
>> kernels now anyway.
>> 
>>  Any input on upgrading would be most appreciated...
> 
> I don't know what you know I guess, but it should work following these 
> instructions:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> 
> or these:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html
> 
> or these:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/installation.html
> 
> It is probably wise to make a backup and do a test first.
> 
> -- 
> Adam
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Re: Errors with ports on 9.3..

[Adam Vande More]

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Howard Leadmon  wrote:

>Thanks for the update, I had the feeling the issue was from it being to
> old.   I have a question, not sure if you know, but I will toss it out.
>  As I mentioned I update using svn for both src and ports, and I am curious
> to know if I can actually bring my src tree up to the most current 10.x
> stable, recompile, and install and have it all run?
>
>  In the past with much older versions, I know file system changes and such
> make it pretty hard to jump major revisions,

so have a little bit of fear about jumping from 9.x to 10.x, and possibly
> even to 11.x if that is now stable.   I am using ZFS, so I guess that would
> be one thing that is outside the norm, but should be part of the base
> kernels now anyway.
>
>  Any input on upgrading would be most appreciated...


I don't know what you know I guess, but it should work following these
instructions:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

or these:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html

or these:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/installation.html

It is probably wise to make a backup and do a test first.

-- 
Adam
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Re: Errors with ports on 9.3..

[Howard Leadmon]

   Thanks for the update, I had the feeling the issue was from it being 
to old.   I have a question, not sure if you know, but I will toss it 
out.   As I mentioned I update using svn for both src and ports, and I 
am curious to know if I can actually bring my src tree up to the most 
current 10.x stable, recompile, and install and have it all run?


 In the past with much older versions, I know file system changes and 
such make it pretty hard to jump major revisions, so have a little bit 
of fear about jumping from 9.x to 10.x, and possibly even to 11.x if 
that is now stable.   I am using ZFS, so I guess that would be one thing 
that is outside the norm, but should be part of the base kernels now anyway.


 Any input on upgrading would be most appreciated...

---
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PBW Communications, LLC
http://www.pbwcomm.com

On 6/3/2017 1:08 PM, Mark Saad wrote:

Howard
  There are 3 options . One upgrade to 10.x or 11.x and ports/pkg will work . 
Support for the 9 series and 10.1 and 10.2 was removed from ports a few months 
ago . Two check out ports via svn and use the tag RELEASE_9_EOL and use that as 
your starting point . This is ports before the support for 9 was dropped . It's 
not up to date but it will work .Lastly you could use pkgsrc from netbsd not 
Joynet , and do a full rebuild of what you need . Pkgsrc also has a pkgsrc to 
ports conversion tool if you want the subsequent pkgsrc packages registered in 
a FreeBSD standard pkg dir . This would work if you haven't converted 9 to use 
pkgng .

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_9_EOL/

https://www.pkgsrc.org/



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On Jun 3, 2017, at 11:39 AM, Howard Leadmon  wrote:

I know 9.3 is kinda dated, but it had been running fine so I left the servers 
alone as they were in a remote location many hours away.

That said, if I try and do anything with ports (I keep everything updated using 
SVN), I get the following error:

"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1038: Unknown directive

The line is:   .export LANG LC_ALL


I even tried removing the ports tree, and bringing it all back down, but same 
error.   Maybe my googlefu is failing me, but I couldn't find this exact error 
listed anyplace.   I have a couple FBSD 9.3 machines still in existence, and 
they all do this with anything in ports now.

Any ideas or suggestions?  Would just taking SVN to the current 10.x fix this?

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PBW Communications, LLC
http://www.pbwcomm.com

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Re: Errors with ports on 9.3..

[Mark Saad]

Howard 
 There are 3 options . One upgrade to 10.x or 11.x and ports/pkg will work . 
Support for the 9 series and 10.1 and 10.2 was removed from ports a few months 
ago . Two check out ports via svn and use the tag RELEASE_9_EOL and use that as 
your starting point . This is ports before the support for 9 was dropped . It's 
not up to date but it will work .Lastly you could use pkgsrc from netbsd not 
Joynet , and do a full rebuild of what you need . Pkgsrc also has a pkgsrc to 
ports conversion tool if you want the subsequent pkgsrc packages registered in 
a FreeBSD standard pkg dir . This would work if you haven't converted 9 to use 
pkgng . 

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_9_EOL/

https://www.pkgsrc.org/



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> On Jun 3, 2017, at 11:39 AM, Howard Leadmon  wrote:
> 
> I know 9.3 is kinda dated, but it had been running fine so I left the servers 
> alone as they were in a remote location many hours away.
> 
> That said, if I try and do anything with ports (I keep everything updated 
> using SVN), I get the following error:
> 
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1038: Unknown directive
> 
> The line is:   .export LANG LC_ALL
> 
> 
> I even tried removing the ports tree, and bringing it all back down, but same 
> error.   Maybe my googlefu is failing me, but I couldn't find this exact 
> error listed anyplace.   I have a couple FBSD 9.3 machines still in 
> existence, and they all do this with anything in ports now.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions?  Would just taking SVN to the current 10.x fix this?
> 
> ---
> Howard Leadmon
> PBW Communications, LLC
> http://www.pbwcomm.com
> 
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Errors with ports on 9.3..

[Howard Leadmon]

 I know 9.3 is kinda dated, but it had been running fine so I left the 
servers alone as they were in a remote location many hours away.


 That said, if I try and do anything with ports (I keep everything 
updated using SVN), I get the following error:


"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1038: Unknown directive

The line is:   .export LANG LC_ALL


I even tried removing the ports tree, and bringing it all back down, but 
same error.   Maybe my googlefu is failing me, but I couldn't find this 
exact error listed anyplace.   I have a couple FBSD 9.3 machines still 
in existence, and they all do this with anything in ports now.


Any ideas or suggestions?  Would just taking SVN to the current 10.x fix 
this?


---
Howard Leadmon
PBW Communications, LLC
http://www.pbwcomm.com

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