On 2020-11-25, Chris Bennett <cpb_misc@bennettconstruction.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 02:26:42PM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to upgrade (on -current) and, in the process, remove some cruft
>> accumulated over the years. I usually do sysupgrade and sysclean for
>> system.
>>
>> But for packages, I think I would be better to reinstall everything
>> since "pkg_check -F" does not seems to complain and I can see I have,
>> for example, some firefox-57 files left.
>>
>> I think I could do the following but I don't know if it is safe:
>> - sysupgrade (+ sysclean)
>> - pkg_info -mz > mypkg
>> - umount /usr/local
>> - newfs partition_of_usr_local
>> - mount /usr/local
>> - pkg_add -l mypkg
>>
>
> It's not right. Use pkg_delete -cX first. There are package files in
> many other places that need to go away.
Be very careful with -c! It may remove configuration files that you
actually want to keep.
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