Shared libraries version bump?

[Kevin Oberman]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:42 AM, b. f. <bf1783 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I think I'll rebuild all ports, and more, maybe I should make and keep packages in case I can't update to BETA3 in place.
>
> If you want to be on the safe side, a complete rebuild is probably a
> good idea -- and moreover, one that removes all ports and cleans out
> ${PREFIX} and ${PKG_DBDIR} before rebuilding any ports, if you can
> afford the downtime.  Otherwise, the new misc/compat8x port can help
> ease the transition.  If they aren't available on pre-release media,
> default packages for certain architectures are available at:
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${ARCH}/packages-9-current/
>
> Depending on the architecture, and when you download them, they will
> have been compiled on a variety of recent versions of 9, but will
> probably work on the BETAs, at least with misc/compat8x, as a stopgap
> while you rebuild ports.

'man portmaster' provides a straight-forward procedure or this, but it will
miss a few things do to complex dependencies involved in thongs like
gnome2 and kde. These ports use "tricks" to keep the dependency tree
under some control, but at a cost of occasionally missing things. Still, it
gets you most of the way very easily.

See the examples at the end of the man page.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com