Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT..

[Anonymous]

krad <kraduk at googlemail.com> writes:

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> now for the local packages you have two options: rebuild or install
> compatibility libraries
>
> I usually go for rebuild
>
> 1.mv /usr/local /usr/local.old
> 2. mv /var/db/pkg /var/db/pkg.old
> 3.  reinstall
> ls /var/db/pkg.old/| while read f; do pkg_info -o $f| tail -2; done  | sed
> -e "s/^.*\///" | sort -uls /var/db/pkg/| while read f; do pkg_info -o $f|
> tail -2; done  | sed -e "s/^.*\///" | sort -u | while read p; do pkg_add -rv
> $p; done
> 4. copy your configs accross from the /usr/local.old dir
>
> Finally after you have tested and are happy all is ok cleanup
>
> rm -rf /usr/local.old /var/db/pkg.old
> cd /usr/src
> yes | make delete-old-files  delete-old-libs  delete-old-dirs

I think obsolete header files should be removed *before* ports rebuild.
Some ports may accidentally decide to use them based on their presence.