Migrating to AMD64

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Mon Jan 7 11:14:25 PST 2008


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Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Cy Schubert píše v po 07. 01. 2008 v 09:15 -0800:
> 
>> Is there a documented or preferred approach to migrate ports from i386 to 
>> AMD64? Portupgrade has issues. Deleting and reinstalling 1954 ports by hand 
>> would be a monumental project. Any suggestions?
> 
> Reinstall from scratch.

I think that the only preferred way is to do a 'pkg_info -qao' and save
the output, reinstall from scratch, install portupgrade, then
portinstall -P `cat list`...  Without this you will easily end up with
some nasty i386/amd64 binary mixure issue.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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