Re: Necessity of rebuilding pkgsrc after updating the system

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On August 16, 2015 11:02:59 AM EDT, Pongthep Kulkrisada <ptkrisada%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>After updating the system from 6.x to 7.x (i.e. update across major
>branches),
>should I have to rebuild all pkgsrc?
>If yes, how to force rebuild it?
>I looked through the handbook, I didn't find the information.
># pkg_chk -u -s doesn't do the trick with the same quarter of pkgsrc.
>
>Thanks in advance,

Theoretically most existing packages should continue to work, with the exception of things tied to low level kernel details, such as lsof.  I've always had a hard time getting full upgrades of all packages to work reliably, and often ended falling back to getting a list of installed leaf packages, and doing a (mostly) clean install from scratch.
However, you can try "pkgin full-upgrade" and see if it works for you.  (assuming you just want to install pre-built packages, and don't have customizations to the builds)

Eric