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Re: mail/mutt-devel: new errors



Thanks!
On Mar 6, 2012 6:58 PM, "Matthias Scheler" <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 06:03:42PM -0300, Arthur Maciel wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 11:09:56PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > > > But generally, OS upgrade's interaction with pkg is an area not very
> > > clear
> > > > to me. (Whether such rebuild should be necessary and if so, what's
> the
> > > way
> > > > to reliably trigger it etc.)
> > >
> > > A set of packages build completely under the old release should work
> fine.
> > > A set of packages build completely under the new release must work
> fine.
> > > A mixture of packages build under the old and new system will fail
> > > in interesting ways and is therefore not advisable.
> > >
> > > And this is not something that NetBSD could realistically fix. The
> > > maintainers
> > > of G++ e.g. keep changing the C++ ABI.
> <
> > Dear Matthias, is there a way to rebuild all the installed packages at
> once
> > in order to avoid failure? It is already happening on my system with many
> > packages.
>
> "pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_rolling-replace" should be able to do it. But I
> haven't used that tool for a long time.
>
> You can also build a change root using "pkg_comp", rebuild all packages
> there and the install the with "pkg_add". This is roughly what I did
> but I have my own customised way of building a change root.
>
>        Kind regards
>
> --
> Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/


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