libtool upgrade, entry 20060223 in UPDATING

[Frank Laszlo]

Hans Lambermont wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The 20060223 entry in UPDATING suggests that the only reliable way of
> upgrading a system is to remove all packages and reinstalling from
> scratch.
>
> This implies a short week of recompiling (where most of the time is lost
> waiting for config input :-/ ), and as I have a staging server available
> I'd like to use it for rebuilding all my ports.
>
> The staging server is an exact copy of the production server (dump to
> restore pipe over ssh of all partitions). On the staging server I removed
> all installed ports first with pkg_delete -f `ls -1 /var/db/pkg`. This
> generates a lot of complaints, including "cannot create /dev/null:
> Operation not supported". Weird.
>
> Next I rebuild all ports on the staging server (in 1 week) and made
> packages of all 400 ports with ls -1 /var/db/pkg|grep -v pkgdb.db|xargs
> -n 1 pkg_create -b (there must be a better way, anyone ?).
> During this pipe pkg_create generates complaints like:
>
>     tar: share/templates/.keep_me: Could not stat: No such file or directory
>     pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
>
>     tar: lib/ao/plugins-2/libesd.a: Could not stat: No such file or directory
>     pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
>
>     tar: lib/mozilla/defaults/isp/US/movemail.rdf: Could not stat: No such file or directory
>     tar: lib/mozilla/defaults/isp/movemail.rdf: Could not stat: No such file or directory
>     pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
>
> Scary.
>
> I now face the upgrade of the production server. First I pkg_delete all
> ports, then I need to install the packages built on the staging server.
>
> I'm wondering how to accomplish this as pkg_add *.tgz refuses to
> proceed, complaining "pkg_add: too many packages (max 200)". I have over
> 400. If I choose a smaller subset with for instance pkg_add [a-f]*.tgz I
> get dependency problems, +REQUIRED files that are not there yet etc.
> How should I proceed ?
>
> Next to that I'd like to hear from others how to accomplish this
> all-ports upgrade on servers where one wants the downtime to be minimal.
>
> -- Hans Lambermont
>
>   

portupgrade -afp isnt good enough?

-Frank