Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:27:59 +1100 From: paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> To: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question.... Message-ID: <200311201127.59090.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20031120002418.GA16870@lewiz.org> References: <200311201113.29006.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <20031120002418.GA16870@lewiz.org>
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:24 am, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:13:29AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: > > is there a method (other than de-installing all pkgs and reisntalling) > > to upgrade the ports or packages appropriately from 4.8 to 4.9? > > Not quite sure I fully understand, but you might want to take a look at > portupgrade (portupgrade -a -f ;). It's in ports/sysutils. > > Best wishes, > > -lewiz. Ta... I'll give it ago... in clarification.... if I upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9, will I also have to upgrade (by whatever method) the applications running on the box? I.e. those that are not part of the src tree? for that matter, am I likely to encounter any issues with configuration files? /etc/... and /usr/local/etc/... ??? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824
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