libtool upgrade, entry 20060223 in UPDATING

[Hans Lambermont]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

> Hans Lambermont wrote:
>> Frank Laszlo wrote:
>>> Hans Lambermont wrote:
>>>> The 20060223 entry in UPDATING suggests that the only reliable way
>>>> of upgrading a system is to remove all packages and reinstalling
>>>> from scratch.
>> ...
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> portupgrade -afp isnt good enough?
>> 
>> No, I want to have minimal downtime of the server. When using
>> 'portupgrade -afp' the system is in flux for almost a week. I want to
>> avoid that, and the only way I know how to avoid that is to use a
>> staging and build server (at least that's the idea).
> 
> If you can build  your ports on an non-production server, use
> portugrade -PP with modified package site in pkgtools.conf

Ah yes, that avoids using pkg_add and it's 200-packages-at-a-time limit.

I'm also looking into other-than-portupgrade ports tree tools, does
anyone know a way to accomplish the equivalent of portupgrade -PP ?

> If you can afford that non-production server the fastest way is to
> delete all installed packages and build them all from scratch.

Which is exactly what I did :) Still took me almost a week.

regards,

-- Hans Lambermont