reinstall all packages

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 27 20:35:23 UTC 2014


+--On 28 juillet 2014 01:22:45 +0700 Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su>
wrote:
| Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> 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.

It recommends it whenever you run freebsd-update -r xxx upgrade, I guess
it's because it's safer to always say that.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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