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mahashakti89

Hi,

Now that the 9.1 release is out, I tried to update my FreeBSD system following the procedure explicated in the FreeBSD handbook.

What I did :

Code: 
#freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install

the I started the proosed
Code: 
#portupgrade -af

It seems to take a lot of time ....
My question is : Can I interrupt this command and start it tomorrow again ? I hope it will NOT start from the very beginning again ??

Can you confirm or infirm this ?

Thanks

mahashakti89
 
Portupgrade will only upgrade ports that are not the newest version. But you forced it to rebuild everything. That's only necessary if you upgraded from FreeBSD-7 or -8.

Anyway, the answer is that yes, every time you force portupgrade to rebuild everything with -af, it will rebuild everything. If you don't want to rebuild everything, don't use -f.

Rebuilding everything in place is also slower than deleting all installed packages and installing them again. See the ports-mgmt/portmaster man page for a procedure that does that: records everything installed, deletes it, and then installs it from scratch.
 
Interupting portupgrade won't affect your base system (you'll still be able to boot), but some ports (e.g. x11/xorg, editors/emacs editors/vim could be broken.

By the way, if you were trying to upgrade to 9.1-RELEASE with freebsd-upgrade(), you would need to have done something like this.
Code: 
freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE upgrade
freebsd-update install

If you have a custom kernel it's slightly more involved.

But maybe you were running a 9.1RC or PRERELEASE in which case what you did might have done the trick?
 
Thanks for your answers ...
I will delete the -f switch .... and hope for the best.
I have no custom kernel. So this should work flawlessly.

Regards

mahashakti89
 
Using -a is not without potential problems, either. But first, what version were you upgrading from? You may not need to rebuild anything.
 
From jrm
Yes, this is giving the wrong impression
Click to expand...
Exactly this is is the reason why I used
Code: 
#portupgrade -af
I followed the given method , now I am smarter about this. I can use it for the next
upgrades.

Thanks

mahashakti89
 
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