reinstall all packages

[Victor Sudakov]

Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> | 
> | After a major upgrade it is recommended to reinstall all ports/packages.
> | What is the recommended procedure for pkg ?
> 
> After moving from a major version to another, pkg upgrade -f is the way to
> go. 

Thanks. I could not find it because I was looking under pkg-install,
not pkg-upgrade.

> By major, I mean going from 8 to 9, or 9 to 10.
> You don't need to do that going from say, 9.1 to 9.3, you would be
> installing the same packages over again.

Still, "freebsd-update upgrade" recommends doing it even when
upgrading from e.g. 9.1 to 9.3.


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