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From: Robert Huff on 7 May 2010 08:12

Is there one? I've been checking daily, and ... nothing.
(Various sited, including just now "cvsup.freebsd.org:.)


Robert Huff

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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= on 7 May 2010 08:20
2010/5/7 Robert Huff <roberthuff(a)rcn.com>:
>
>        Is there one?  I've been checking daily, and ... nothing..
> (Various sited, including just now "cvsup.freebsd.org:.)
>
>
No, there is indeed none for now.

If you use portmaster you can just run 'portmaster -af' or follow the
instructions near the end of its manual page (before Doug Barton
goes correcting me ;) )

René
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From: Robert Huff on 7 May 2010 08:25

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= writes:

> >        Is there one?  I've been checking daily, and ... nothing.
> > (Various sited, including just now "cvsup.freebsd.org:.)
>
> No, there is indeed none for now.

Obvious question: why not? Even if all it says is "use
'portmaster -af' or portupgrade equivalent", isn't having such a
huge event go unremarked in front-line documentation a Bad Idea(tm)?


Robert Huff



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From: David Wolfskill on 7 May 2010 08:32
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:20:55PM +0200, René Ladan wrote:
> 2010/5/7 Robert Huff <roberthuff(a)rcn.com>:
> >
> >        Is there one?  I've been checking daily, and ... nothing.
> > (Various sited, including just now "cvsup.freebsd.org:.)
> >
> >
> No, there is indeed none for now.

Correct.

> If you use portmaster you can just run 'portmaster -af' or follow the
> instructions near the end of its manual page (before Doug Barton
> goes correcting me ;) )

I'm not Doug, but I based on my experience with the transition (using
portmaster), I'd say that would be overkill: you don't need to
force-upgrade all installed ports merely because X.org was upgraded
(except in the rather special case that all installed ports are part of
or depend on parts of X.org).

When I did the upgrade, there was a problem with one of the input
drivers that the x11/xorg meta-port had brought in (but that I didn't
actually use); that was fixed within a couple of days, so if I were to
do the upgrade, I'd merely use

portmaster --index -ad

but you'll want to evaluate that compared to your normal practice and
proceed accordingly. (In my case, that's what I normally use to upgrade
ports, absent an applicable UPDATING entry directing other actions.)

Peace,
david
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From: Erik Trulsson on 7 May 2010 08:52
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 08:25:56AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= writes:
>
> > >        Is there one?  I've been checking daily, and ... nothing.
> > > (Various sited, including just now "cvsup.freebsd.org:.)
> >
> > No, there is indeed none for now.
>
> Obvious question: why not? Even if all it says is "use
> 'portmaster -af' or portupgrade equivalent", isn't having such a
> huge event go unremarked in front-line documentation a Bad Idea(tm)?

No, not really. The entries in UPDATING are really only intended for
the cases where the Usual Procedures(tm) for updating are not
sufficient and the user needs to take some kind of special action.
For the recent X.org change users are not supposed to need to do
anything special when upgrading, and thus there is no need for an entry
in UPDATING.

The size of the upgrade is not really relevant for if it gets an entry
in UPDATING or not, only if some kind of special action is needed.



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