On Fri, Jan 24, 2014, at 06:50 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > You should realize that the pkg tools have gone thru *major internal > changes* > over the last month or so. > > If you see weird things happening, now is a really good time to report > them, > before it's too late... > > > Also, the 5.4 -> 5.5 update is going to be "fun": there was a kernel flag > day. > > The proper way to update packages will be along the lines of: > in 5.4: > > pkg_info -mq >list > pkg_delete * > > (update to 5.5) > in 5.5, install new packages: > pkg_add -z -l list > > > Again, there might be issues. Now is a very good time to start > looking... Do we have to do any of this if we have been following snapshots or -current? Are there any other gotchas related to these for those of us who are running snapshots or -current? I haven't had any obvious Bad Things jump up and bite me yet, want to keep it that way. (Software-related, at least; having my onboard SATA controller fall down and go boom kind of falls outside the realm of that.)
-- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com
