Re: OpenBSD/i386 switches to gcc3

[Marc Espie <espie_(_at_)_nerim_(_dot_)_net>]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:46:42AM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:27:36AM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:16:04AM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
> >> >In particular, note that updating ports from source will fail miserably
> >> >on quite a few ports... this is due to libtool not looking in the right
> >> >place...
> 
> >> Then, out of curiosity, how do you (the OpenBSD developers) create the
> >> packages then if not from source/ports?
> 
> >Notice I was talking about updating ports ?
> 
> Ah, sorry, I didn't get that detail.
> 
> >It's quite simple: you have to wipe the old ports before building the
> >new ones.  Not the kind of thing you want to do on a production machine...
> 
> Ok, earlier it was the only possibility of course, before you did
> the fine work on updates. Would it work to rebuild the ports on a
> separate build box, after wiping the ports there and upgrading the base
> system, and then use those binaries to upgrade (as in pkg_add -r) a
> production system or would it even then be recommended to pkg_delete
> everything and pkg_add the new binary packages to the production system
> too?

There's at least one port that is going to give you trouble.
That's mozilla... just pkg_delete the old packages before you even
think of installing the new ones.

Most of everything else seems more or less happy that way.
But be sure to update every port !!! keeping gcc 2.95 and gcc 3 pieces
around is going to hit you real hard otherwise.