proper upgrade procedure from base to base

[Andriy Gapon]

on 12/06/2009 20:51 Boris Samorodov said the following:
> Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> writes:
> 
>> What is the proper upgrade procedure to go, say, from f7 to f8 or from f8 to f10
>> (later)?
>> UPDATING says to follow instructions from 20070327, but those amount to "remove
> 
> Have you read those instructions to the end? ;-)

Yeah, but the instructions at the end looked like some special case, while in fact
it doesn't seem possible to do a proper upgrade without them.

>> old base port, install new base port". But then what about ports for xorg or gtk2
>> or alsa lib? They do not seem to get updated following this procedure.
> 
> This can be useful:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-June/006221.html

Yes, I ended up following this example.
However I must say that some ports are a pain to re-install (e.g.
HeroesOfMightAndMagic), especially when technically don't need to be reinstalled.

>> Is there an automated way to upgrade all ports that have different versions for
>> different bases?
> 
> We have only one default linux base port per an OS version. So changing
> a base linux ports is not supposed to be rare. I'm not sure if an
> automated tool may be useful here.
> 
> Said that I'm not aware of such a tool.

I am sad too.

-- 
Andriy Gapon