On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT), [email protected] wrote:
I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with
freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did the
standard stuff to get to 9.0
perl and xdm both gave errors that libutil.so.9 was missing. scanning google and
questions suggested this module was removed. Also in some basic way the ports
make scripts view the system as an 8.X system as make index gives 'Generating
INDEX-8 - please wait.."
Can this be repaired? Building from source is out of the question for this
system.
After a major version update (8.x -> 9.x) you should reinstall
_all_ ports. See "man portmaster" (EXAMPLES section) for suggestions
on how to do this.
If you want to avoid it. you can install the compat8x port on
your system. Unaltered (!) installs from 8.x should continue
running. But as soon as you're introducing new software, trouble
may occur. In that case, a clean install of your applications
should be the better way. (Note that you can do this either by
source or by packages, just as you prefer.)
The described problem with libutil can be avoided when working
with the compat8x port. There are more such ports for older
versions that allow running binaries compiled for those OS
versions ("API/ABI remapping").
After seeing if xorg and twm would just work, I did remove all packages with
pkg_delete. That did not clear out all of /usr/local. When pkg_add of perl
failed, I just built that. pkg_add of xorg worked. pkg_add of xdm got an error
something along the line of unliking lib/X11/auth... so I deleted that dir and
did pkg_add again. This installed but xdm fails on execution with libutil.so.9
missing.
monhegan:~> uname -a
FreeBSD monhegan.boltsys.com 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0:
Tue Jun 12 01:47:53 UTC 2012
[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
But make index thinks (I think) this is an 8.x system. pkg_add did add from
...lastest..9.0 for xorg and xdm. AFAIK there are no 8.x components.
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