FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

[Rob Farmer]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 17:25, Michael D. Norwick
<mnorwick at centurytel.net> wrote:
> 4 weeks ago I backed up all my data and reformatted from Debian 'lenny' to
> GPT/ZFS/8.1-RELEASE.  The next two weeks did not go so well.  While I tried
> hard to get ZFS formatted drives to work reliably, intermittent unexplained
> core dumps with reboots gave me cause for concern.

There have been some significant fixes to ZFS in the last several
months. 8-STABLE is probably the best branch to follow for ZFS right
now.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 19:18, Michael D. Norwick
<mnorwick at centurytel.net> wrote:
> I spoke a little too soon.  I was UPGRADING to KDE4 4.5.2 as I was typing
> the message.  'portupgrade kde4' was @ approx. 38% when it error'd out on
> something about 'kdelibs4-4.4.5' too old.  Going to /usr/ports/kdelibs4 and
> 'make clean', 'make', borked also.  I do not have much time tonight for
> fiddling so, I deleted my ports tree and cvsup'd /usr/ports again.  I'll try
> again tomorrow evening if the winds we are currently experiencing here in
> western wisconsin don't blow all our buildings away and kill my horses.

What KDE did you start with? Did you do:

20100902:
  AFFECTS: users of KDE4
  AUTHOR: kde at FreeBSD.org

  KDE SC ports has been updated to 4.5.1. A number of files were moved
  between packages, manual intervention into update procedure is required:

  # pkg_delete -f kdehier4\* kdelibs-4\* kdebase-4\*
kdebase-runtime-4\* kdebase-workspace-4\*
  # rm -rf /usr/local/kde4/share/PolicyKit/policy
  # cd /usr/ports/misc/kdehier4 && make install clean
  # portmaster -a
(portupgrade -a can be used here too, if you want to stick with that)

Upgrading big stuff like KDE is going to require some manual
intervention because obsolete dependencies need removed, old libraries
might interfere with the build of new ones, etc. Best practice is to
look at /usr/ports/UPDATING for any special instructions when updating
ports. ports-mgmt/portupdate-scan can help with this. In reality,
myself and most people tend to wait for something to go wrong before
checking (you can tell by the regular threads where people report a
problem it already addresses.)

-- 
Rob Farmer