oops - ran 2nd "freebsd-update install" before rebuilding ports

Matthew Seaman matthew at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 24 16:19:54 UTC 2014


On 02/24/14 15:18, Dale Scott wrote:
> After going through one upgrade to 10.0-RELEASE from 9.x, I got cocky and
> started working on two upgrades from 8.3 to 9.0-RELEASE at the same time. I
> forgot which system I was ssh'd into and ran "freebsd-update install" for
> the 2nd time on one system before rebuilding all the ports, and even pkg
> won't run now as the libutil version it's linked to no longer exists.
> 
> I can afford to have the system down for a day or two, and I'm willing to be
> diverted a little for a learning opportunity, so should I a) try to recover
> the system from its current state, b) recover the entire system from backup
> and start over, or c) build a new 10.0-RELEASE system from scratch and
> recover the data from backup?

You should still be able to use pkg_static -- which is, as the name
suggests, statically linked.

Start by:

    # pkg_static install -f pkg

which should replace your pkg(8) with one compiled for the version of
the OS you're running.  10.x comes with /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf pointing
at the default FreeBSD package mirrors, which is a good place to get a
pkg package...

You can then work through reinstalling all your ports by whatever means
you initially intended.  Generally it's best to make a note of wat you
want installed, clear down all your installed packages, making backups
of any config files as necessary, and then start again with an empty
/usr/local.  Of course, this implies a bit of service downtime while you
do the reinstalling job, but that's hard to avoid in a major version
upgrade however you do it.  (And you said you didn't really mind anyhow...)

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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